Running Ubuntu Remotely from Windows

[Tommy Trussell]

On 3/9/06, Thomas Kaiser <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li> wrote:
> Charlie Markwick wrote:
> > IS it possible to run a remote Linux session on my Ubuntu box from a
> > Windows XP PC?
...
> If you need only command line you can ssh into Ubuntu. Install the ssh
> server on Ubuntu (sudo apt-get install ssh) and use putty (google it) as
> ssh client on Windoz.

I'm not sure how to do it in Windows, but if you install an X server,
you can probably even do GUI stuff through the ssh connection. It's
easy to do on a Mac, and the procedure might work similarly in
Windows.

On the Ubuntu box, install ssh as described above.

In Mac OS X (10.3 or newer)

1) Make sure you have Apple's X11 installed, and start X11

2) At the X11 term window, type the following:

   ssh -X username at address

(Substitute your ubuntu login for "username," and the local name or IP
address of your ubuntu machine for "address." The -X tells ssh to be
ready to handle X windows locally.)

3) Once you log in to your Ubuntu machine via ssh, any GUI
applications will execute locally on the remote computer. For example,
to run evolution type

   evolution


(Of course this works just fine AMONG Ubuntu machines, too.)