[nflug] ssh to rdesktop ** Its all good

Bootz eric at bootz.us
Wed Aug 30 16:46:55 EDT 2006


Sorry about that I forgot to restart the other sshd server ...it work
great.. thank you very much

Bootz wrote:
> I am close, I have a black screen now running rdesktop. 
> I'm just doing a simple:
> rdesktop -u me theServer
> any suggestions?
> Thank you,
>  Eric
>
>
>
> Darin Perusich wrote:
>   
>> 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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