[Cialug] SSH

[Tom Sellers]

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] SSH annoyance
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:30 PM
> On 2009-03-03 at 14:13:27, John Lengeling wrote:
> >Just invoke ssh with:
> >
> >Ssh -X remote-host
> 
> Once you know it works, you can make it permanent by adding
> "ForwardX11 yes" to your ~/.ssh/config file. If
> you want to limit it to 
> just 1 host, try something like this in ~/.ssh/config,
> replacing the 
> example remote host with something more interesting:
> 
>     Host remotehost.example.com
>       ForwardX11 yes
>       Compression yes
>       ServerAliveInterval 300
> 
> I add those last 2 lines for hosts that are on slow
> connections which 
> are prone to timeouts.

I use a product in the Windows environment called Remote Admin to connect to remote workstations and make changes.  This allows me to actually see the user's desktop screen.  Is this possible using this method or does that require some other software package?

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