On a customer's site is an industrial unit (call it "A") that has a web
interface, and although it can be reached remotely the web interface
doesn't work well due to latency issues. So there has been a request to
install another PC on-site ("B") that is always running and to which I can
remote desktop, on which to run a web browser, to view A. That means that
the comms between A and B will be on the same LAN (and therefore not suffer
from latency issues), and remote access will be via B.
However, I already have a headless (ie no keyboard/mouse/monitor, and
currently no X) server on-site ("C") that I can reach via SSH. In principle
there's no reason why I can't use this instead of installing something new
(B). So my question is: what do I need to do on C to allow me to access it
via remote desktop and run a browser?
My first thought is that
apt-get install xrdp firefox
.. should install everything I need, but I'm not sure if that's the case.
Regardless, I would like to install as little as possible to make this
work. The choice of web browser is fairly open, and the closer I can get to
just running the browser (with minimal "desktop" interface to go with it)
the better. It does ideally need to be using RDP as most of the people
accessing it will do so from Windows, and getting them to install X servers
on their Windows desktops isn't viable.
Any ideas?
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