X thro ssh

[Rahul Sundaram]

Saravana Kumar wrote:

>Hi fellow admins,
>
>I have a peculiar requirement. We have two offices. People from second
>office(say #2) want to connect to the server in first office(say #1). They
>want to run the GUI applications in the office #1 server from office #2.
>
>I tried to do this with VNC server and it works fine. But VNC is goes thro
>unencrypted(open) connection. Is there a way to do this in a secured
>way(read that xdmcp is not possible as it uses UDP).
>
>Inside our network(LAN) if connect from one system to other thro ssh and
>start an gui application that application shows up in the client. This
>doesn't happen when i connect to server and start gui apps(says display not
>set). iptables runs in the server. Do i have to open any port for that?
>
>Any help or pointer in this regard is appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>SK
>  
>
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regards
Rahul