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From: Alastair Biggs
To: hampshire@???
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: [Hampshire] Rlogin
Hi guys
Just to give you a bit of a idea about my setup
Ive got a Windows XP machine ( Shinobi) and I'm trying to get it to talk to
my Linux Machine ( Dragon). I am using Putty to connect from my Windows
Machine to the Ubuntu box. I can connect using SSH this works perfectly
fine. Ok so your now thinking whynot just use SSH and get the job done, I am
pretty new to Linux, although I can navigate and work around the CLI i'm
hardly a expert on it. So I would like Rlogin setup so I can see that GUI
goodness.
So I fire up Putty in Windows, I have assigned my Ubuntu box Stactic I.P
and unique hostname so all is well, SSH works fine. But when I try and
connect through Rlogin a black screen appear's briefly then it just closes
providing me with no error message, Hmmm the ports not being opened I
thought so I went straight into the port forwarding on the router and opened
port 513. Logging in through Putty produced a similar result.
I then went to to ubuntu and under the Rlogin options set the option to
allow remote connections. Still no results.
Any diagnostic commands I can run to aid the troubleshooting process of
this?
I'm thinking about throwing Rlogin out the window and just using SSH.
Many Thanks
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17:04
I've never been sure what PuTTY's rlogin does but if all you want is remote
graphical access to your desktop, get hold of vncviewer for XP and (if
running gnome) System > Preferences > Remote Session and click the
appropriate boxes. Your firewall will obviously need to allow inbound
connections from your xp box - but if you can ssh in - shouldn't be an
issue.
About 10 clicks and you should be happily gui'ing in remotely.
Cheers
Rob
