Configuring SSH connections on RedHat ES 4

[Nigel Wade]

Harjinder Singh wrote:
> Thanks for the help with SSH...i got it working with Putty.
> 
> What's the best way to establish a remote X-Windows session?
> 
> Thanks for any help provided.

freenx/nxclient. Not part of RHEL, but the best package I've found for running 
remote X sessions.

If all you want is the ability to run a remote X client, then any X server for 
your local machine will do. Combined with ssh X tunneling you have everything 
you need. However, if your local machine doesn't have an X server (Windows 
perhaps) freenx/nxclient is much easier to install and configure than any X 
Window package.

We have been using Exceed here for years for X on Windows and it's always been a 
problem. Our users often work from home, mostly over DSL lines, and trying to 
get Exceed to operate at any decent speed even on 2Mbit lines has proved 
fruitless, especially when AA fonts are used. There are many other problems.

With freenx/nxclient you can hardly tell that you are not in the office, it Just 
Works. I think everyone here now uses it in the office as well as at home. You 
don't get the million-and-one configuration options which a true X server 
provides, but in my experience those just allow you to fubar the system, and 
you're generally better off without them.

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