remote gui

[deeanglo]

I've heard that there is a remote gui interface for redhat. I can't find any information on it :( would any one be able to help me?

[Tino Didriksen]

To get a remote GUI you'd need to install the whole X Window System package.

Better go with SSH and Webmin, or what other controlpanel you have...

[deeanglo]

Hmm... where woould I be able to find that?

[QT]

SSH is already installed, and webmin is installed if there are no other control panels installed (like Plesk, Ensim, Cpanel).
The X packages can be found at ftp.redhat.com or any other redhat mirror.

[deeanglo]

I have plesk.
would this cause a problem?

[QT]

If you're referring to having Plesk and installing X, there wouldn't be any problems (aside from it being a complete waste of time ;))

Plesk controls all of the relevant server configurations, and any other customization would have to be done through a terminal anyway .. so you'd end up installing 500MB of packages so you can open up an xterm (which happens to look just like a PuTTy ssh session).

[deeanglo]

Thank's for the help! :)

[spoon]

I know I'm a day late and a dollar short, but just in case anyone else interested, here's a quick howto made up some forum posts from a while back (just in case someone else might find it helpful):

http://www.spoonix.com/howtos/vnc.txt

Basically gives you an example of using ssh or VNC to fire up X clients.

There is at least one dain-bread installer that insists on having a local X server running on the machine (*cough*Oracle*cough*), but it's the only case I know of.