question on x windows

[Michael Simpson]

On 2/26/08, Aaron Bliss <abliss at brockport.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a user who would like to connect to x windows on one of our linux
> servers.  I'm not use to offering up x windows to any end users (I'm a
> command line guy) so I'm struggling with this a bit.  I've installed x
> font server, daemon is running, and I installed xfce.  Server is running
> at run level 5 right now.  I'm not sure what ports I need to open on the
> firewall to allow them to connect to the server or what other config
> files that might be preventing them from displaying an x session on
> their desktop (they have a windows x server running on their machines).
> I know that x windows sessions are insecure, so I would also be in favor
> of forwarding the session over ssh, but I would like to know how to
> connect with and without ssh to the xfs server.  Thanks for your help.
>
> Aaron

Hi there

in the past i have used nx from nomachine.org to access a fedora
server from a windows client over ssh. It seems to be more responsive
than using vnc and the free version works well for one or two users.

mike