hiho@ll

i wana set up a "download server" @ home for private use
and i thought about using a p2p app like mldonkey with a webinterface
but mldonkey doesn't get good results for a search query or at download speed (maybe it's just a bad configuration)

but for now i'm thinking about using xmule and i just wanted to know if and how it is possible to share a X session remotely?
so i want to start xmule remotely, start some downloads and if neccessary check the download stat
since xmule is a graphical app i would need a x session
that's not a problem
but i dont know how i can start a remote x session, start a prog and let it run on X after i closed the connection
and how i can share a connection, so more than one user can check xmule stats simultaneously without interfere each other (but that would be a "nice to have")

or maybe someone knows a good alternative for mldonkey?

thx@ll

Hi,

I believe that eMule and eDonkey already work on a client-server basis, meaning that you can use several way to access their interface (web, telnet...). So, just doing a little bit of config should allow several users to open a web browser to connect to the box were your peer to peer app is running.
To open a remote X session, you can use the -X option of ssh (which does all the job for you), or use:
francois@localmachine # xhost +
francois@localmachine # ssh francois@remotemachine
password: *******
francois@remotemachine # export DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:0.0
francois@remotemachine # emule &

where 192.168.0.1 is the ip address of localmachine.
the & after emule detach the emule process from the current shell, so you can close the shell and the emule process will still run...

this wont really solve your problem, as every user that connects will launch a separate emule process...

thx
i just found that amule has such architecture so i can use the amuled! cool *g*