Hi everybody.

I am newbie at Linux.
But I am going to definitely resign from Win...sh..it. Unfortunately I must find equivalent software for Linux.
And I have encountered difficulties just at the beginning (first but not last problem, I suppose).
Under W2k I use X-Win32 to connect to machine under linux (Red Hat 7.1)and run software installed there (very specific, dedicated, scientific software). It is trivial with X-Win32.
And my question is: How can I do the same think under Mandriva.
I must underline that I know IP number (all data connected with network), users and passwords.

If you don't have it installed already, install SSH (you should be able to get it through Mandriva's package manager). Then, you can open a terminal window and type "ssh -X user@host" without the quotes. "user" is a username for the remote machine and host is the IP address or hostname of it. -X allows X forwarding, so you can run graphical programs as you would with X-Win32. See "man ssh" for some more info about SSH.

Change Enable=false to Enable=true in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and restart X windows (log out and log back in). This should enable xdmcp which should allow you to connect to the X server on the Linux box and get the login screen.

Hello.

Thanks Nylex for your advice.
It works very well. Now when I know the method I can do some configuration (it concerns especially display resolution)


I dont know what tkedwards means. I didnt find any information about xdmcp in docs provided with free mandriva 2006 and in package area. I somebody could give me some additional explanation about it(I use KDE environment).

XDMCP is just the protocol that X-windows uses to get a full display manager session - ie. to start with a full login screen and a full-screen session the same as you'd get if you actually sat down at the computer and logged into X-windows - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDMCP. Its supported by X-windows out of the box but is disabled by default for security reasons (it should only ever be used over a LAN).

There's nothing wrong with Nylex's way - it works fine and is secure and flexible enough to be used over the Net since it uses ssh port forwarding.

Tkedwards.
Thank you for your explanation.

I always try to find solution by myself (if I can) reading docs. But I noticed that documentation about linux is rather scattered throughout the internet. And the last observation - linux is a litle bit more difficult than I expected.