[Tfug] headless systems

[Andrew Ayre]

We use ssh on all our servers, whether they are in the same room or in a
different country. Never had any problems with it. Works fine with Suse,
Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu... We no longer use telnet or ftp. I guess there
is no advantage to using ssh on a LAN, but for us there is no reason not
to use it as it works just fine. Helps to keep the interface to all our
servers somewhat consistent.

You can install a desktop and then use VNC to connect to it remotely.
Also I think KDE has a remote desktop feature built in. I've yet to
investigate vnc4server which I believe starts the desktop on demand when
a VNC connection is made.

Andy

christopher floess wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to run a system remotely.
> I've never really been able to get an understanding for it. I know there
> is ssh, but that's based on secure connections, which I'm not really
> conerned with, since this is just going to be a private network used
> to tinker around with network topologies.
> 
> For some reason, I seem to remember that ssh doesn't really have
> to involve key encryption and all of that, but is that the way
> systems are supposed to be run remotely?
> 
> At work we telnet into our AIX server, and I've had null modem
> connections in the past, but there were problems with certain
> characters and things like the backspace key.
> 
> Basically I would like to be able to log into the system and have
> full control of it without any character garbling issues just like I
> was sitting in front of it with a csh prompt.
> 
> Or what would be even better is if I could have a graphical window
> that represents the desktop, but I know that that get's kind of weird
> given X's client-server model, where the server actually the system
> running X and the clients are the program's being run remotely.
> 
> Any way, any help sorting this stuff out would be great. Even
> an appropriate google query would set me straight. Thanks
> everyone ~ Chris

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Andy
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