[Klug-general] openssh or what?

[Alan Buchel]

ssh -X user at server forwards X, then you can just run say:
nautilus
- and it happens on the machine called server
but I find it slow even over a LAN.

freenx however is amazing.
if you have difficulty installing it then you can use the server version
from nomachine which is easier to configure but limits multiple logins.

the same nomachine client will work on either.

no time explain everything in detail but hope i have hit the point.

On 15/02/12 11:15, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> I have recently contracted something nasty which prevents my sitting
> comfortably at my primary PC. I have to use a limited-spec laptop over
> the domestic wi-fi network for emailing etc and staying in touch. My
> domestic network consists of two well-specced PCs called 'mainframe'
> and 'backup' connected together via an Ethernet cable, plus 'laptop'
> connected via the wi-fi facility on the router. 'Backup' has shared
> files via samba etc so that the entire content of 'mainframe' can be
> dumped to it. 'Laptop' can also see those shared backup files. That
> seems to work.
>
> What I want to do now is use 'mainframe' with its extended facilities,
> including VirtualBox, but from 'laptop'. I am pretty sure this is
> possible under Linux. 'Mainframe' has the latest Ubuntu with Unity,
> 'backup' has up-to-date PCLinuxOS and 'laptop' is running LXDE
> although I'm not sure whose. Currently the only shared facility is
> cups which works fine using 'mainframe' as the printer server. That
> more or less installed itself.
>
> Can someone kindly point me at an idiots guide where I can read up on
> how to achieve what I want to do. I've read the wikipedia article on
> openssh and that seems to be the way to go although do I need all that
> encryption when I am sheltered behind a router which is a pretty good
> firewall? There are no problems with internal security as I'm the only
> user in the house and the wi-fi link is encrypted with WPA-PSK.
>
> It would be nice to sit here in my armchair with my laptop just
> feeding the keyboard and mouse clicks to 'mainframe' and seeing that
> PC's screen on my laptop. I'm happy to do a lot of reading but I don't
> want to re-invent the wheel neither do I want to over-complicate
> things with lots of encryption if that isn't necessary.
>
> Er when I said 'idiots guide' I meant it :-[ . Many thanks in advice.
>
> MikeR
>
>
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