single linux box on dsl?

[Yang Xiao]

Hi,
The concern is security, not style. Sure you can use VNC, but you should use
it with SSH port forwarding as well.

Yang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin at weiss.name] 
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: single linux box on dsl?
> 
> 
> From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> > Thanks to all of you... this has been a very educational thread for 
> > me.
> Can
> > someone point me to a beginner's guide to X Forwarding, 
> particularly 
> > through SSH? I keep hearing that X can display the 
> results/output of a 
> > program on another machine, and that this can be tunneled 
> through SSH. 
> > Great, fine, I get it... and I'd *love* to do it. Yet I 
> can't seem to 
> > find a HOWTO that will explain the how and the why to me...
> 
> I'm curious why anybody would want to do X forwarding when it 
> seems to me that VNC would be faster and easier, not to 
> mention more robust (if the network connection dies, the 
> session is still there on the server, waiting for me).
> 
> Am I missing something?  Is X forwarding better than VNC in some way?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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