Ssh gui?

[RogueWatchmen]

I'm trying to remote into my server at school useing ssh -l admin -Y IP address. Once logged into the acct I can run xeyes but startx gives me errors. Af I going this correctly or should I be using a diffrent program to run the desktop GUI? The server is running CentOS and it's something we run in my SA class so I'm trying to learn how to do remote installs and whatnot, but I'm not that proficient yet so starting w/ just getting the GUI to open lol.

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this but I wasnt sure where to ask, and I'm not even sure if it's something I need to install on the server either. I just installed Fedora 1 with little previous Linux experiance so yes I am a noob lol.

[jpollard]

You are already running an X server.

If xeyes starts, and displays, you are finished. No need for startx, which is for running a local X server.

Just start whatever GUI applications you want.

Note: fedora 1 (actually fedora core 1...) is really really old. And is no longer supported, and even hard to find any documentation on.

[RogueWatchmen]

Hmm, will it not display the desktop then? I was thinking it would be sort of like when someone remote's in and can see the desktop as if they were at that computer. Like I daid I've not had much experiance with SSH

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by RogueWatchmen

Hmm, will it not display the desktop then?

The applications you start on the remote machine will use the local desktop.

Originally Posted by RogueWatchmen

Like I daid I've not had much experiance with SSH

This has nothing to do with SSH, it's how the X Window System is designed to work.

[RogueWatchmen]

Ahh ok, I expected to see the desktop populate either in a seperate window or something. I didn't realize they would use the same GUI interface like that. I'll read over the link, thx for the assist.

[stevea]

Here

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...29&postcount=6

Be sure to set STARTSESSION appropriately.

[beaker_]

Originally Posted by stevea

Here

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...29&postcount=6

Be sure to set STARTSESSION appropriately.

That's cool. I really like that.

Why not launch rdp/vnc/or whatever your favourite method is and connect through a ssh tunnel?

rdp for ex.,
At the server

su
yum install xrdp
chkconfig on xrdp
service xrdp restart
exit

Besure to open tcp 3389 (rdp).

At the client.

su
yum install remmina remmina-plugins-*
exit
ssh ValidUserName@RemoteIPAddress -L 3389/localhost/3389

You could also use -n if you want.  Launch remmina, pick you favourite remote desktop protocol (rdp as example) and connect to localhost.

* note. You're better of killing that Fedora 1 install and running with either Fedora 16/14 or CentOS/SL. All of which are free to download.