"Lam, Yochai" wrote:
>
> hello all !!
> does any one knows of something equivalent to pcanywhere (at the wintel
> platform) 4linux/unix?
That's one of those questions I hear quite a lot and I never know how to
respond. The question is so "Windows oriented", that regardless of what
I answer it's simply wont do.
The functionality of remote invocation and control of GUI programs
(start the program somewhere else; see the the GUI on *your* screen) is
a built in feature of the X windowing system that is used on Linux/Unix.
The system works more like a windows terminal server/client (or what
I've really should have said: the Windows terminal server/client work
like X ;-) more then PCAnyWhere.
The very basic use is quite simple. Run an X server locally (be it on
Linux or Windows - you can find X windows server for Win* on sites like
Tucows). Telnet to the remote machine, change the environment variable
DISPLAY to be "yourip:0.0" and start any X (read: GUI) program. The
program will run on the remote computer, but will display it's GUI on
your local machine (where the X server runs).
>From here you can get up to configuring the system to allow remote GUI
login into the machine, but this is a more advanced issue. I suggest you
read the X Terminal HowTo on linuxdocs.org for that one.
In addition, as has been mentioned here, there are programs like VNC
that supply some added benefits, but for basically starting a program
remotely with the GUI locally all you need is X.
Gilad.
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