[Techtalk] Next Topic, Remote Display & Access

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:15:31PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Michelle Murrain thought:
> At 12:01 PM -0400 10/16/02, Beth Johnson wrote:
> >Hi again,
> >since I can't get my mp3 encoding to work the way I want it, time to
> >table it and move on to the next issue.
> >
> >I have at my desk two computers.  Also two monitors and two keyboards.
> >One of these machines is a server I've set up with all of my mp3s so we
> >can listen to our music on any of the machines we have sprinkled
> >throughout the house.  It also serves to store backups and downloaded
> >files that multiple computers have need for (RPMs for the Linux boxes,
> >and files for the Mac machines).  I would like to get the server's
> >monitor off of my desk, but I haven't a clue how to set up the system so
> >I can run it from my desktop.
> 
> Get a KVM switch - that's the easiest way to do it - you can run 4 or 
> 8 (or a zillion, if you want to spend a zillion dollars) off of one 
> keyboard and mouse. Thats what I use for my servers.

Same here though I don't often press the button.  Mostly I use ssh to get
a shell on the server from my desktop and then run the apps from there.
ssh is very handy 'cos it takes care of all of the X authority and DISPLAY
export stuff for you.  On the HAN you can use authorized_keys to allow
passwordless connections:  1. make a keypair using ssh-keygen.  2. Copy
the .pub key into $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys[2] (use the 2 if you made DSA
keys, leave off the 2 if you made RSA keys).  3. use "ssh server.domain"
to your heart's content...

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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