On 08/13/2010 01:51 PM, AG wrote: > Hi all > > I have a guest account on my machine and want to enable that user to > access that profile from another Debian machine on my LAN. This task is > called remote networking, right? And as far as I can tell OpenSSH is > probably the way to go. How can I give this user the experience (i.e. > desktop, icons, files, etc.) from the LAN machine that they would get if > they were logged in directly?
Using ssh will not give you the "full" desktop experience. In normal use, you just get a line/text oriented, terminal interface. You can enable "ForwardX11" and "ForwardX11Trusted" in ~/.ssh/config and get ssh to create a DISPLAY value for the remote that will point back to your machine. You could then type in some graphical command, such as 'iceweasel' and it would open using your local display. This does mean you must be running an X server on the local machine, which is not necessarily the case if the local machine runs a Windows or Mac OS. > > I'm sure that this is reasonably straight forward, but I can't seem to > find a coherent answer in a language I can understand. I'm not hugely > technical and most docs that I've come across seem to assume computer > wizardry above my ability. I'm not expecting others to do the work, but > just would appreciate a sign-post to some decent (newbie-friendly?) > documents that will enable me to give a remote user a local experience > of their user account while retaining a reasonable degree of security. > > Any ideas? Thanks very much I think you want to enable remote graphical login via kdm/gdm. I'm not sure how to set this up, but the man pages for kdm and gdm both mention "remote" logins using the XDMCP protocol. Perhaps this will at least give you a starting place for searching. > > AG > > -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c65bb21.5000...@symantec.com
