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Diverted Income

March 25th, 2009, 11:41 AM

Is there a good guide for a How To SSH for a newbie? Looking to SSH across a LAN first then want to connect from external network at some point.
Thanks!

lovinglinux

March 25th, 2009, 12:07 PM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AdvancedOpenSSH
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

Diverted Income

March 26th, 2009, 01:08 AM

Thanks! I'm reading now. Looks like what I need to get started.

Diverted Income

March 28th, 2009, 02:56 PM

lovinglinux

March 28th, 2009, 07:40 PM

Ok I can SSH to the machines. I am still having trouble pulling the desktop across or running applications. I get an error that no video specified. trying firefox & for a command. What am I missing now?
Thanks!

I'm not sure you can pull the desktop. I guess only remote desktop can do this, not ssh. Anyways, to run applications you need to configure the ssh server on the remote machine to forward the X server. Then put the option -X in the ssh command.

Diverted Income

March 28th, 2009, 11:28 PM

So can I use SSH to connect then establish a VNC or Remote Desktop securely?

Dr Small

March 28th, 2009, 11:30 PM

I'm not sure you can pull the desktop. I guess only remote desktop can do this, not ssh. Anyways, to run applications you need to configure the ssh server on the remote machine to forward the X server. Then put the option -X in the ssh command.
Sure SSH can pull the desktop. You just gotta use the -X flag, and Xephyr:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620003

lovinglinux

March 28th, 2009, 11:35 PM

Sure SSH can pull the desktop. You just gotta use the -X flag, and Xephyr:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620003

Thanks. Everyday on this forum is a new learning experience ;)

Dr Small

March 29th, 2009, 12:38 AM

Thanks. Everyday on this forum is a new learning experience ;)
I know it! That's why I'm lovinglinux :)