Harjinder Singh wrote:
Thanks for the help with SSH...i got it working with Putty.
What's the best way to establish a remote X-Windows session?
Thanks for any help provided.
freenx/nxclient. Not part of RHEL, but the best package I've found for running
remote X sessions.
If all you want is the ability to run a remote X client, then any X server for
your local machine will do. Combined with ssh X tunneling you have everything
you need. However, if your local machine doesn't have an X server (Windows
perhaps) freenx/nxclient is much easier to install and configure than any X
Window package.
We have been using Exceed here for years for X on Windows and it's always been a
problem. Our users often work from home, mostly over DSL lines, and trying to
get Exceed to operate at any decent speed even on 2Mbit lines has proved
fruitless, especially when AA fonts are used. There are many other problems.
With freenx/nxclient you can hardly tell that you are not in the office, it Just
Works. I think everyone here now uses it in the office as well as at home. You
don't get the million-and-one configuration options which a true X server
provides, but in my experience those just allow you to fubar the system, and
you're generally better off without them.
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