Command line usenet client?

[Robert Dailey]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:31 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 07/08/2008 03:57 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> > A friend of mine told me I'll have to setup an X11 Server on my
> > windows (remote) machine to be able to view Firefox, for example. I'd
> > have to execute Firefox from PuTTY and then the window will be
> > controllable through X11 Server. I'm too used to using Remote Desktop,
> > so I may be getting the concepts confused.
> >
>
> Please let us know which machine is connecting to which.
>
> I set up a server, and on the server: loaded the Ubuntu desktop (sudo
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)[1], set the gdm to allow remote login
> and also auto login on boot (not sure if this is the most secure but I
> used it for testing), added ssh and NX Nomachine.
>
> I brought up a Win2KP virtual machine and added PuTTy, NX Nomachine
> client, and UltraVNC.
>
> From Ununtu I can use the Terminal Server client to VNC into the
> machine, use ssh -X to ssh with X window services to the machine, NX
> Nomachine client into the machine.
>
> From Win2KP I can Putty into the machine using ssh, NX Client (again
> using ssh) into the machine, and UltraVNC (using VNC) into the machine.
> With NX and UltraVNC I am able to use and control the desktop. I am not
> familiar with PuTTy so I don't know how to make it do the same as 'ssh
> -X' from Ubuntu, so I wasn't able to get it to display an X window.
>
> I'm not sure if any of that it what you are looking for, but it does
> provide you with some interesting options. Note: all of the above server
> was set up on a 4.5G hard drive. After installing the ubuntu-desktop and
> the xubuntu-desktops I only have 582Mb on the drive. Much of that can be
> uninstalled and free up at least 1-2Gb, but that will give you an idea
> of how much disk space all of this took.
>
> [1] I had problems setting up remote login VNC with xubuntu. I am sure
> that it supports it, but I'm not familiar enough with xubuntu to figure
> it out just now.


You just confused the crap out of me. See, I think this is too complicated.
With Microsoft's Remote Desktop feature, all you have to do is connect to
the server and bam... you can see the server's GUI interface. Why can't the
X window system be this simple? Is there a step-by-step guide somewhere I
can read on getting this to work? Right now I'm so confused I don't even
know where to start.
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