[Nottingham] Booting Headless

[David Wolfson]

Chris,

> > Roger thanks
> > The idea is just to put the PC in a remote part of the building and still
> > have access to it through the GUI.

> Joe Wrigley wrote:
> I would suggest you look at NoMachine NX.
 As I'm doing a lot of remote work, and had not heard of NX, I followed the 
link joes gave and in next to no time had FreeNX running from madrake - RH9 
'cross-country'. It's great. Really great. 

I gooled NX and read a couple of the linux journal articles and so far it 
seems worthy of the praise it gets there. From what I understand it only uses 
SSH tunneling, and is far quicker than full X clients I've used before. 
There's not as much info on it, but I'm now off to see if I can get it to 
connect to a winXP rdp session...

Thanks to Joe for putting me on to a really good bit of OSS,

Dave




> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Roger Light
> > Sent: 18 August 2005 20:47
> > To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Booting Headless
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> >>I've setup a PC running Fedora 4 and I'm using VNC to access the
> >>desktop locally. However, I now want to move the machine into a remote
> >>part of the property without a keyboard or monitor. I'd like to be
> >>able to vnc in to Gnome and access the machine completely remotely.
> >>
> >>I'd like to boot it headless but I can't seem to find a way to avoid
> >>logging on with username and PW.
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure I'm getting all of what you're saying so I may have
> > missed something. Having said that, I do the same thing with one of my
> > machines. I start the machine and then log in via ssh and start my vnc
> > session. This doesn't avoid logging on in its entirety, but there is no
> > need for a keyboard/mouse as long as your network settings are correct
> > and ssh starts.
> >
> > Is that any good?
> >
> > Roger
> >
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