Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
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>> Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to
>> have
>> a tool called 'xon'.  It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
>> a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally
>> specified
>> command, with the DISPLAY environment variable all set up, and maybe
>> permissions
>> as well (probably with xhost rather than .Xauthority).
>>
>>
> Sounds like ssh -X :-)
>

VNC, XDMCP might be other options.  If your virtual environment is
VirtualBox, you can use rdesktop.

But FWIW, they, like rsh/rlogin/rexec and telnet servers, usually require
extra steps on the client to set up after the install.  SSH is usually
enabled, except for root.
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