on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:27:54AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks - thanks for all of your hints regarding my problem. > I think I am close to the solution - maybe you can help me again? > > > I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) > > while connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). > > Some data of my configuration: > * laptop name: boneless > * PC name: freeze > * username on PC: nutzer > > What I tried (and many variations of that): > > * start on the laptop (in text mode) "ssh -l nutzer freeze", > than change to root with "su" and "cd /root"
Nope.
You're trying to ssh to your server, then start an X session where it
doesn't already exist: on your laptop.
Instead, what you want to do is launch X and start a session which
*runs* on the server but is *displayed* on your laptop. Using an X
display manager such as xdm or wdm:
$ X -query freeze
...should provide a login screen from your server.
Installing wdm should be sufficient to make this work, no additional
config file modifications are necessary.
Another option is to run X and remotely run various applications from a
separate terminal session (ssh, telnet, etc., doesn't particularly
matter, though I'm with those who strongly discourage use of telnet).
Note that X is not a secure network protocol. Running X over PLIP is
going to be pretty secure, it's a point-to-point protocol. I'm not so
sure about speed, but am not sure of what parallel port bitrates are
compared to serial or ethernet.
Cheers.
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