Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Gui remote access. Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:54:57 +0000 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1m30ib-cuu.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net I7DN7LP6t4GT9WJHVxp1vAmF9YdwnYvmpCO/CzaB5Wli1RcOb7 X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:rgXsSipCnFzVl97evHS8CgGI4hA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12499 On 26/10/14 20:35, john@wexfordpress.com wrote: > I have two computers on my local network. I want to sign on machine A, hardwired to my router and running slackware 14.1, from machine B, a laptop with a wireless connection and running hard drive knoppix. I am asking for a connection similar to that using MSWin and VNC, but open source. > > Any suggestions? > > John Culleton > ssh with X11 forwarding? ssh to the remote machine and launch gui programs with the display on your machine - it's the "X" way :) Or Remote X session is another way.