[luau] Beheading Servers

[Wayne Bow]

Finally!  Something I *know* something about!

I've tried several permutations to make this work. The fastest, 
smoothest that I've found is connecting via SSH and using that to 
create a secure tunnel for a VNC session. I'm using DSL (768/128) 
on one end and an Oceanic connection (3MB/1.5MB) on the other 
and things run pretty well...although not quite as fast as using 
PCAnywhere on two Windows boxes.

I've also tried SSH and X-forwarding an X session to a Cygwin 
environment running on a Windows box. That was not nearly as 
clean even when running on a 10MB LAN but could be configuration 
issues on my part. 

I run my box at home headless and at init level 3. When I log into 
the SSH session I su to the user I want to create the VNC session 
with and start VNC. That way yoiu have only one hole thru your 
firewall, the port for SSH. Then I use WinVNC to connect and 
receive the desktop of the user that started the VNC session. On the 
10MB LAN at home I can 'full-screen' the session and its as if I'm 
sitting at the computer in question. Server is Celeron 1GHz, I 
connect using an Athlon 1800+ machine (approx 1.5GHz IIRC)

HTH,
WB

> 
> SSH.
> 
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us wrote:
> 
> > I have multiple servers that I am setting up and I was wondering what is
> > the best way to run them headless? I'd want to remotely run X and be able
> > to use the interactive tools, but I want to conserve resources by not
> > running the X Windows client on the server. The only way I can think of is
> > to run X as usual and then TightVNC in. Is there a way I can run the X
> > server without starting up a client session?
> > 
> > How is remote administration usually handled?
> > 
> > Suggestions most appreciated. Thank you.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
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Wayne Bow
Network Administrator
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