Command line usenet client?

[NoOp]

On 07/08/2008 03:57 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 07/08/2008 01:46 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Will the server reboot in the GUI, or do I start it manually?
>>
>> Hmmm... I hadn't thought about that (the reboot) - give me a few hours
>> and I'll load one up and give it a try.
>>
>> Also,
>>> would I still be able to use PuTTY?
>>
>> Should be no problem there. You should be able to use all of your cli
>> and applications that you use on the server now.
>>
>> I'm not sure how having a desktop
>>> would affect other things.
>>
>> It shouldn't affect any of your server operations. If there is a chance
>> that it will I'm sure someone here on the list will step in and correct me.
>>
>> I would expect to be able to start/stop the
>>> GUI at my leisure.
>>
>> You can go back to cli using Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc.
> 
> A friend of mine told me I'll have to setup an X11 Server on my
> windows (remote) machine to be able to view Firefox, for example. I'd
> have to execute Firefox from PuTTY and then the window will be
> controllable through X11 Server. I'm too used to using Remote Desktop,
> so I may be getting the concepts confused.
> 

Please let us know which machine is connecting to which.

I set up a server, and on the server: loaded the Ubuntu desktop (sudo
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)[1], set the gdm to allow remote login
and also auto login on boot (not sure if this is the most secure but I
used it for testing), added ssh and NX Nomachine.

I brought up a Win2KP virtual machine and added PuTTy, NX Nomachine
client, and UltraVNC.

>From Ununtu I can use the Terminal Server client to VNC into the
machine, use ssh -X to ssh with X window services to the machine, NX
Nomachine client into the machine.

>From Win2KP I can Putty into the machine using ssh, NX Client (again
using ssh) into the machine, and UltraVNC (using VNC) into the machine.
With NX and UltraVNC I am able to use and control the desktop. I am not
familiar with PuTTy so I don't know how to make it do the same as 'ssh
-X' from Ubuntu, so I wasn't able to get it to display an X window.

I'm not sure if any of that it what you are looking for, but it does
provide you with some interesting options. Note: all of the above server
was set up on a 4.5G hard drive. After installing the ubuntu-desktop and
the xubuntu-desktops I only have 582Mb on the drive. Much of that can be
uninstalled and free up at least 1-2Gb, but that will give you an idea
of how much disk space all of this took.

[1] I had problems setting up remote login VNC with xubuntu. I am sure
that it supports it, but I'm not familiar enough with xubuntu to figure
it out just now.