[Lancaster] remote desktop / xdmcp problem

[andy baxter]

Re-sending as the original hasn't got to the list yet...

Wayne Ward wrote:
> hi andy hows the performance of the new small factor box you bought?..
> have you thought of how you are going to setup the test web server yet
> IE chroot or in a virtual machine ...
>
>   
It uses about 40-50% CPU playing a dvd from a usb drive in mplayer. Not
sure if it's using the hardware acceleration on the graphics chipset.
The CPU is 1.2Ghz single core, and I have 1Gb of RAM. Seems pretty good
so far.

What I would like to do is run the net-exposed server stuff in some kind
of virtual machine, then write a script which monitors the filesystem
the VM is running on to look for any signs of a break in. (Using aide,
chkrootkit, etc. ). I don't know much about virtualisation, so any
advice would be appreciated here. I was thinking user-mode linux might
be good for this, but not sure yet. The idea is to keep the monitoring
program one level above the stuff it's monitoring, to make sure it's not
the first thing that gets compromised if someone cracks the machine.

any thoughts?

andy
> Wayne
>
> andy baxter wrote:
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>> Thanks! I hadn't thought of using vnc. It turns out there's a program
>> called x11vnc which grabs the current X11 display and turns it into a
>> vnc server session.
>>
>> It's working great - I'm now playing a film on the mini-itx box with the
>> keyboard and mouse controlled by my laptop.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> andy
>>
>> John Scott wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Try VNC...If I remember correctly, it grabs the current X session and
>>> displays it locally.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>> [mailto:lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of andy baxter
>>> Sent: 14 August 2009 01:23
>>> To: Lancaster Linux User Group
>>> Subject: [Lancaster] remote desktop / xdmcp problem
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have two machines, a laptop and a mini-itx box. I want to be able to 
>>> run an X session on the mini-itx box and have it displayed on both 
>>> machines at the same time. This is different from the standard xdmcp 
>>> remote desktop situation where you want a different session on the 
>>> client to the mini-itx box - what I want is to have the keyboard and 
>>> mouse from the laptop controlling the session, but to have the same 
>>> session displayed through the video card on the mini-itx.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to do this? I already have standard xdmcp logins 
>>> working.
>>>
>>> (The original problem was to find a simple way of playing videos and 
>>> music on the mini-itx box without having to have a keyboard and mouse 
>>> permanently attached to it.)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
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