[nflug] ssh to rdesktop

[Darin Perusich]

i use Xming, which i prefer because its a stand alone windows xserver
and doesn't rely on a cygwin environment.

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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