Ok this is a different question to the previous posting, but it's the reason why I started tinkering in the first place.

I work in a university where the most common method for accessing the central UNIX servers is through Xceed, so several of the users of the RH9 machine I'm administering want to be able to access it in this manner. Am I right in thinking that this should be running on the LINUX box by default, and I need to change it's configuration to allow remote access and/or alter the firewall?

Cheers,

DW

The easiest way of accessing a remote Unix/Linux system running X is using SSH. While it may not be as elegant as remote login, it's easy and works well. If the SSH server on the UNIX server allows X forwarding (ask your admins if you don't know), just try typing ssh -X username@hostname, where username is your login name on the server and hostname is the name of the server. The -X option tells SSH that you want X forwarded too.
If this works fine, try opening a GUI application on the server, like xeyes. If it displays locally and without error messages you're home free.

Håkan

Yup, SSH works a treat but some of the users feel the need for a more graphical interface and Xceed is the standard round here....

and now that someone here has explained the system to me it all works! Thanks for your help, problem sloved,

DW

Glad you got it sorted.

Håkan

I've been asked to explain what the solution was, but I'm afriad it's not going ot be hugely useful from a LINUX users point of view. It is simply that it is posible to open a remote desktop conection to one of our central UNIX servers, and SSH to the LINUX box from there. I'm pretty certain that this is a roundabout way of doing this, but it satisfied the users in question!

Dave