I use my company Windows 7 workstation with personal putty and xming to access the many AIX and Linux servers I must administer.
I ssh -X onto a server via putty and if xming is running in the background I can use any of the xwindows aware applications, for example on AIX smit or mozilla.
This is very productive for me. I also use this method to connect to the SUSE 11.2 vmware clients I manage. Life is good.
Successful access to SUSE
Here I use putty to connect and immediately run yast2
Using username "root".
Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20130911"
Last login: Fri Dec 6 09:22:01 2013 from pcmv544.corp.xxxxint.com
lxmv91:~ # cat /etc/SuSE
SuSE-brand SuSE-release SuSEconfig/
lxmv91:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2
lxmv91:~ # yast2
** (y2controlcenter-gnome:3551): WARNING **: key not found [/apps/yast-control-center/cc_actions_list]
I can't paste it here, but I got right into yast2 as I would expect.
Failed access to OpenSuse
Unfortunately OpenSuse 13.1 is configured differently and I can ssh -X in and run yast2. I get the blue colored tty based screen that hard to use.
In this example I exported the DISPLAY value and they tried yast2 and then firefox there is no error but no application screen appears.
login as: root
Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20130911"
Last login: Fri Dec 6 11:12:22 2013 from pcmv544.corp.xxxxint.com
Have a lot of fun...
lxmv150:~ # cat /etc/os-release
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)"
VERSION_ID="13.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"
lxmv150:~ # yast2
lxmv150:~ # firefox
(process:2776): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Error: no display specified
lxmv150:~ # export DISPLAY=172.24.5.24:0.0
lxmv150:~ # firefox
(process:2783): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
^C
lxmv150:~ # yast2
^C
I have been trying to determine the differences in the two configs.
I compared the two /etc/ssh/sshd_config files and only difference that stood out was "UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox"
I am at a loss with this problem. I want to put my personal OpenSuse box on VMWare, and then access from my Win 7 desktop.
I can of course use vnc but I need the flexibility of running only specific application and not an entire remote desktop.
I haven't had any luck with google searches, I don't think I am using the correct search term to find the magic bullet.
Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.
Regards,
Clem
I ssh -X onto a server via putty and if xming is running in the background I can use any of the xwindows aware applications, for example on AIX smit or mozilla.
This is very productive for me. I also use this method to connect to the SUSE 11.2 vmware clients I manage. Life is good.
Successful access to SUSE
Here I use putty to connect and immediately run yast2
Using username "root".
Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20130911"
Last login: Fri Dec 6 09:22:01 2013 from pcmv544.corp.xxxxint.com
lxmv91:~ # cat /etc/SuSE
SuSE-brand SuSE-release SuSEconfig/
lxmv91:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2
lxmv91:~ # yast2
** (y2controlcenter-gnome:3551): WARNING **: key not found [/apps/yast-control-center/cc_actions_list]
I can't paste it here, but I got right into yast2 as I would expect.
Failed access to OpenSuse
Unfortunately OpenSuse 13.1 is configured differently and I can ssh -X in and run yast2. I get the blue colored tty based screen that hard to use.
In this example I exported the DISPLAY value and they tried yast2 and then firefox there is no error but no application screen appears.
login as: root
Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20130911"
Last login: Fri Dec 6 11:12:22 2013 from pcmv544.corp.xxxxint.com
Have a lot of fun...
lxmv150:~ # cat /etc/os-release
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)"
VERSION_ID="13.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"
lxmv150:~ # yast2
lxmv150:~ # firefox
(process:2776): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Error: no display specified
lxmv150:~ # export DISPLAY=172.24.5.24:0.0
lxmv150:~ # firefox
(process:2783): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
^C
lxmv150:~ # yast2
^C
I have been trying to determine the differences in the two configs.
I compared the two /etc/ssh/sshd_config files and only difference that stood out was "UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox"
I am at a loss with this problem. I want to put my personal OpenSuse box on VMWare, and then access from my Win 7 desktop.
I can of course use vnc but I need the flexibility of running only specific application and not an entire remote desktop.
I haven't had any luck with google searches, I don't think I am using the correct search term to find the magic bullet.
Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.
Regards,
Clem