[Tfug] 486 >> xterm

[Bowie J. Poag]

> This is my home lan. The only other person who uses it is my wife, and
> she is not likely to spend much time with the 486.

Very simple then. Do yourself a favor and dont even listed to the parade o'
tards that will make it their life's mission to point out why they don't
like this idea...The situation youve described is one where you dont
particularly need to worry too much about security. Running xhost + is a
good example of what I mean..It opens that box's X server wide open to any
client connections. On a public network, this is a security hole big enough
to drive a truck through. On a home LAN, its perfectly fine since there is
no threat of outside intrusion.  To put it bluntly, the following is fine
for home use, but will get you fired in the real world:


Here's what you need to do.

1) Create a user account on the 486 box. Call it whatever you want.

2) Toss the following line at the end of the .bashrc file in that user's
home directory:

xinit

3) In the same user's home directory, toss these commands in .xinitrc:

xhost +
ssh -l johndoe ip.address.of.the.other.host "./remotex"

4) On the OTHER box, make a quickie script called "remotex" that sets that
host's $DISPLAY to point back at you, and then runs KDE or whatever..Feel
free to replace "startkde" with "wmaker", or whatever wm or desktop you
want. The bottom line is, you want to tell the other host "I'm over here,
put a nice desktop on my little X server!" ... The "remotex" script should
look something like the following:



#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY="ip.address.of.the.486.box:0"
startkde

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So, here's what will happen.... When you login to the 486 box, it will start
an X server locally, and open it up for client connections...From there,
your 486 will call up the other host via ssh, and kicks off a script called
"remotex" that launches a desktop. Within a few seconds, the desktop running
on the remote host will appear on the 486's screen.

Cheers,
Bowie


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