Remote login, graphically?

[Clive Menzies]

On (16/06/06 07:07), Todd Slater wrote:
> On 6/16/06, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >I have installed Ubuntu on my mother's machine. Now, I'd like to solve
> >some of her technical problem remotely. I can already login via SSH and
> >fix things with a text editor.
> >
> >Now, I'd like to start several X programs on her machine, but have the
> >user interface on my machine. I have tunneled X through SSH with:
> >
> >ssh -X ...
> >
> >I can start "xeyes", and it appears on my monitor. However, when I start
> >"firefox", I get the following error after some time waiting:
> >
> >$ firefox
> >The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
> >This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> >The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
> >   (Details: serial 1057 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
> >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
> >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
> >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
> >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
> >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> >function.)
> >
> >Also, I'd like to start "from scratch" and login to her machine via GDM,
> >in a way so I have the complete gnome environment. Is this possible?
> >
> >And lastly, is this also possible in a way that she can see what I am
> >doing, or I can see what she is doing?
> 
> I had heard about FreeNX but could never get the server running on the
> 64-bit Breezy, so when Dapper was released that was one of the reasons
> I switched to the 386 version. I am not disappointed, FreeNX is
> *incredible* for running an X session remotely.
> 
> As far as desktop "sharing," I don't have any experience with that but
> I *think* vmware will allow for something like that.

In Gnome (on your mothers machine) there is an option, Remote access (or
similar).  If you enable it, it runs a VNC server.  You can then use
xvncviewer to access the desktop - your mother will need to be logged in
for this to work.

I'm not currently booted into my Dapper system and so can't tell you
exactly where to enable it but it is accessible off the 'System' Tab on
the Panel and in Administration or some such.

Regards

Clive

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