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#1 2002-12-16 3:59 pm
- CodeMonkey
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remote x-session to os x
Okay, I'm giving linux another chance (I love having a *nix system, but hate configuring hardware). I'm going to install Mandrake (no opinions, please) in a couple hours. One of the things I really want is to be able to get a remote x-session/desktop on my os x powerbook.
How do I go about this? I have oroborosx on the 'book and was thinking I "only" need to get sshd running on the linux box. The problem is, I'm not entirely sure how to do this... isn't there a lot of configuration for X-authority and stuff like that? Or is there a simpler way to accomplish this without ssh? Just pointing me to the correct documentation will probably be enough.
Thanks in advance,
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#2 2002-12-17 12:01 pm
- thekingalrock
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Re: remote x-session to os x
I've done this on several machines without any configuration beyond a functional sshd. Go to your X11 environment on your mac, open a terminal and do ssh -X user@host ... For me, it's been as simple as that.
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#3 2002-12-18 2:01 pm
- CodeMonkey
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Re: remote x-session to os x
Yep, way too simple. Sorry for the delay in check-in times, my internet connection died 
Anyway, for anyone interested, this works from the default install of sshd and the speed is fine even through a 10 mbps hub.
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#4 2003-01-03 2:49 pm
Re: remote x-session to os x
Mabe you guys can help me...
On OSX 10.1 I could log onto another mac in our network, and open apps and kill stuff that was running (much to the disgust of co-workers downloading music and clogging my connection), however in 10.2 I can't get it to work. Is there something I'm overlooking? I am a newbie to this command line stuff.
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#5 2003-01-04 6:42 pm
- thekingalrock
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Re: remote x-session to os x
I have a new reply, but start a now thread so people see it 
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#6 2003-01-05 7:08 pm
- Odin
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Re: remote x-session to os x
Hmm.. I tried the above command (ssh -X user@host) to try and open an x session on my redhat box... It gave me an error about "no xauth data, using fake x authentication" or something along those lines. Then i just got a normal terminal login, X didn't start.
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