I am trying to arrange managing Linux boxes remotely. All Linixes running GNOME and I am running X-WINDOW prgrams from one machine on another. It works great! But there are problems:

Here is the environment: all machines are RH80, all with activated GNOME, OpenSSH and possibility of X-WINDOW forwarding.
From one machine, from terminal window I run ssh and connect remote machine. Then I can start programs from remote machine, but only using their names. Is there a way that I could see all GNOME environment, so I could start programs using icons? Or setup local machine's GNOME so it could start programs on a remote machine

Gregory

i think vnc might be what you are looking for
http://www.realvnc.com/

you can do X over networks, so VNC isn't necessary.

But I'm afriad i'm not an expert in this area.

You might also want to look into XDMCP

thought I'd join this thread as I'm not having much luck in my own

I'm trying to connect to the server remotely sos I can use the desktop to administer it and show others how to do it.

I've got 2 debian boxes where this worked out of the box, but with these 2 FC2 machines I am having problems.

I run X -query 192.168.0.254 :1 from the client and I get a blank black screen with a mouse movable cursor in the centre of the screen, but nothing else happens, so i think it's connecting and doing something but not bringing up the login screen as I would expect.

XDMCP on the server looks like this

with everything else commented out, what if anything should be uncommented?

back to vnc, look for a nice little program/script called "x11vnc"

if you have debian, you can apt-get it.

It's very handy, I use it to work on my girlfriends machine from my house. It just displays :0 over vnc. I just ssh to her box and start up x11vnc, then vnc to her and I can take over her screen and fix stuff.

I guess this is probably what you really are looking for...

can't you make the program you start "by name" be gnome?

for XDMCP setup check out this HOWTO here

I'd highly recommend the SSH tunneling for security reasons.

ok I've removed the firewall and used the graphical xdmcp set up tools on both clinet and server - I've edited the configs as per the instrucuons here

http://www.howtodothings.com/showart...sp?article=757

but still all I get is a black screen with a big X cursor in the middle.

Could it be because the client is laptop, or should that matter at all?