I concur with William. I am still amazed that folks are still using vnc when freenx or nomachine is sooo much faster and easier to setup than vnc. Out-of-the-box freenx is more secure since it uses the ssh protocol by default. <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/FreeNX">http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/FreeNX</a> <div><a href="http://www.nomachine.com/download.php">http://www.nomachine.com/download.php</a> </div><div> </div><div> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, William Fragakis <<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Using freenx server (I've had better luck with the nxclients as opposed to the freenx clients) has worked for me to have a full remote desktop via ssh. William On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:00 -0400, <a href="mailto:k12osn-request@redhat.com">k12osn-request@redhat.com</a> wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:51:14 -0600 > From: Alan Hodson <<a href="mailto:ahodson@elp.rr.com">ahodson@elp.rr.com</a>> > Subject: [K12OSN] ssh commands > To: "Support list for open source software in schools." > <<a href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com">k12osn@redhat.com</a>> > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4ABCAEB2.6050207@elp.rr.com">4ABCAEB2.6050207@elp.rr.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed <div><div class="h5">> > Greetings list > > After a successful install and update of Centos 5 on a new server, I > am > trying to remember how to use the ssh command to remotely be able to > tweak a user's account. [ssh -l username 10.###.###.### -X] works > nicely > after user root set up the initial contact. I am able to type > [firefox] > to remotely setup their browser, [oowrite] to set up OpenOffice, etc. > I've tried studying the [Properties] of an icon, to discover what > command they represent. > I would be thankful if someone tells me what command to use to > actually > activate the true desktop image that the user sees, allowing me to, > among other things, interchange the position of bars. SSH is a nice > and > powerful control tool. > cheers > Alan Hodson > El Paso ISD, TX > -=o=- > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Regards, Conrad Lawes