Ubuntu Server: Need to Remote desktop

[Bud Roth]

Rob:

On your server, you need to "sudo apt-get install openssh vnc4server".
On your Linux client, ssh and vncviewer are standard parts of Ubuntu
installs.  

Openssh is a Telnet-like command line terminal program that has security
built-in.  It uses an encrypted session, unlike telnet, to send data
back and forth.  That should be your command-line way to visit your
server.

Vnc-server provides a secure, GUI desktop based on the X server
installed on your server (xubuntu) to remote clients that request a
connection.  It eats up much less bandwidth than running a remote X
session.

Read up on both of them.  After you install, post your issues and
someone will be able to solve them.  

Good luck,

Bud Roth



On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:26 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've for a long time been a Windows user, but for about a month now
> I've started using Ubuntu Server 8.04, which I'm finding to be quite
> awesome. I've familiarized myself with the command line quite a bit,
> however some things I simply can't do from the command line. For
> example, I need to be able to access my router's firmware website from
> Firefox, and to do that I need my server to have a GUI installed.
> 
> What I want to do first of all is have a GUI on my server I can easily
> start and stop as I please. I don't want the overhead of GUI in memory
> if I'm not using it. I simply want to have a GUI desktop on my Ubuntu
> Server when I want to use Firefox, for example. Here is my broad
> overview of what I want to do:
> 
> 1) Start my Ubuntu server (When I start the machine, it should
> *always* start in command-line mode, with no GUI/Desktop loaded)
> 2) Startup PuTTY from a windows machine, connect to my server with
> that, startup the GUI from the command line somehow, and then from
> that point forward be able to simply "remote desktop" into the server
> and access Firefox to browse the web from my server.
> 3) A simpler alternative to Step #2 would be to ignore PuTTY
> all-together and always be able to remote desktop into my server.
> However, this may require the GUI to be enabled all the time or for it
> to be started as connections come in, and stopped as connections
> leave. Not sure what options I have, so #2 and #3 might be invalid all
> together.
> 4) Another solution would be to simply run Firefox from the Windows
> machine, but have the software communicate with my linux server
> (remote) instead of routing through my local Windows PC's desktop. I
> hear this is complicated, though, or perhaps I'm yet again
> misunderstanding something.
> 
> I do apologize for my "Microsoftish" terminology, however I'm still
> not as experienced with Linux as I'd like to be. I've used the Windows
> Remote Desktop feature a lot, and I really like it because it's simple
> to use. However, one disadvantage to it is the overwhelming amount of
> data it streams back and forth. I just want something simple like this
> for my Ubuntu server.
> 
> So far I've installed the "xubuntu-desktop" package, but I'm not sure
> if this is what I need. Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!


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