Re: [K12OSN] Re: remote start of xprogram for local display
Steve Wright (paua@quicksilver.net.nz)
Fri, 3 May 2002 00:02:24 +1200
On 2002.05.02 05:37 Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
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> 1 big business server, many remote locations connected to
> central location by vpn, k12os servers in every remote location.
> terminals access oo and other goodies locally on the k12os local
> servers and connect
> by ssh to business server. the business app is in character mode and
> displaying X over WAN is not too good.
clients ssh (text-based login) direct to application server ?
ssh uses keys (no password entry required)
put icon in desktop - click and go.
> i have many scanned documents that
> are available locally. the business app knows how to push an image to
> the
> remote k12os server (rsync). the server knows how to display the image
> (export DISPLAY=.... ; gqview image-name). i am missing the crucial
instead of transferring the image there, you could just
`xloadimage hostname:0 filename.jpg` from the server
and splat! it's on their desktop.
you may have to `xhost + big.server.name` from the clients..
What are you making ?
/steve
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