Xclient

[Frogg]

How or what client can I use to make win98/2000 connect to my storm server. I think I frased that right I would like to be able to "telnet in" and work on the desktop

[arca1]

Now are you trying to connect from the win98/2K machines or are you trying to connect <i>to</i> the win98/2k machines. You can always use telnet, or ssh.

[Frogg]

I am trying to connect from the win boxes to the linux server. But I want to connect to it and be able to use the desktop. Will telnet or ssh give me the desktop

[arca1]

Ahhhh, ok this is what you do. You are going to need an xserver running on your win98/2k machines... here is were you can get one http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10069-100-2548913.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.2548913, once you have installed this, start it up.

Now, connect to your linux server (via ssh or telnet). Once you are logged in you are going to have to export the display to you win98/2k machine. Here is an example of what I am talking about...


[root@66-65-40-80 [19]]# export DISPLAY=192.168.32.22:0.0
[~]
[root@66-65-40-80 [20]]# echo $DISPLAY
192.168.32.22:0.0

Now if you like to run gnome, type in gnome-session, and you will get your desktop.

You are going to need the ":0.0 "so do not forget it.

Let me know if this helped you much.

Arca1++

[bdg1983]

You could use VNC. vncviewer on Win9x and vncserver on Linux. Great product.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

[Frogg]

That sort of worked after I played around with it for a little while now the only problem I am having is logging into the box locally I cant get x to work I get a Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 192.168.10.105:0.0

Any Ideas

[Frogg]

Also should the desktop run in its own window Because it is kind of merging with the windows desktop

[Frogg]

Also should the desktop run in its own window Because it is kind of merging with the windows desktop

[bdg1983]

Don't know if the 'cannot open display' is related to the following or not. Check the settings anyways to make sure. Did you try VNC?

To allow a graphical connection to a remote linux box, the computer you wish to connect to must allow graphical connections from your system. This is done by editing the Xaccess file in /etc/X11/kdm/ to allow the client computer(s) -- None is the default for Caldera Openlinux, but uncommenting the line

#*#any host can get a login window

allows all clients to connect, which may be a security risk, so you may want to specify clients. For this faq, we will just uncomment this line (it is the first non-comment commented line). Once this change is made, you will need to re-start the X-server. You can use the login manager, or just use a terminal to go to runlevel 3 then back to 5:

init 3
init 5


/etc/X11/kdm will have to be changed for whatever desktop you are using.

[arca1]

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That sort of worked after I played around with it for a little while now the only problem I am having is logging into the box locally I cant get x to work I get a Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 192.168.10.105:0.0
Any Ideas

It looks like while logged in localy you are still trying to set the display to your WinX machines (this is not going to work). When you login localy just leave the DISPLAY var alone. Only chanage the DISPLAY var when you login remotely.

Arca1++