Re: GDM over X forward

[Curtis Magyar <cumagyar mts net>]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:41 -0700, George wrote:

> GDM is not really an X program like other X programs.  GDM manages X servers
> or X connections.  The only way to connect remotely is through XDMCP which
> you cannot forward through ssh afaik.
> 
> There's also no point in doing it this way.  Once you are already logged in,
> why not just start a session with gnome-session, or whatever other session
> you are using?

I don't know if this will help him or not, but I do this regularly when
I'm away from home:

	ssh hostname "gdmflexiserver --xnest"

It brings up a GDM login window via X forwarding.  Its really only
useful with something like lbxproxy to reduce the X traffic though
(which you can configure gdm to use via the config file), even over
broadband X is very slow without some kind of compression.  If there is
an easy way to enable VNC with GDM, then thats awesome.

	ssh -L 5900:192.168.0.1:5900 24.x.x.x

Is what I use when I have to help my dad do something.  Where 24.x.x.x
is his firewall with the public IP running SSH, and 192.168.0.1 is the
family PC running the VNC server.  Once the ssh tunnel is up, on my
machine here, I tell my vnc client to connect to localhost, and presto,
VNC over SSH.

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Curtis Magyar