[nflug] ssh to rdesktop

[Dennis Ruzeski]

It deserves mentioning that you need to be on a machine running an X server.
I use cygwin's X environment on Windows.

--Dennis



On 8/30/06, Bootz <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>
> happy happy joy joy, thanks I hate leaving home
>
> Darin Perusich wrote:
> > you can do this, you just need to insure that x11 forwarding is on.
> >
> > relevant ssh_config values...
> >  Host *
> >     ForwardX11Trusted yes
> >     ForwardAgent yes
> >     ForwardX11 yes
> >
> > relevant sshd_config values...
> > X11Forwarding yes
> > X11DisplayOffset 10
> > #X11UseLocalhost yes
> >
> > add these and reload sshd, kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
> >
> > once you've done this login with another ssh session and $DISPLAY should
> > be set, check with echo $DISPLAY
> >
> > Bootz wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I'm in a ssh session and want to start a rdesktop session ...I
> can't
> >> right?
> >>
> >> ERROR: Failed to open display:
> >>
> >> is there some way I can get even a dos command line through rdesktop
> >> while I am in a ssh session?  I don't have telnet setup on the windows
> >> server, so thats out.
> >>
> >> I just need to be an administrator on the windows server and execute a
> >> command.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Eric
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