Linux question

[cliftonite]

I finished setting up my fileserver using Fedora Core 4 and I had a question. If the machine is in the basement, without a keboard/mouse/monitor, how would I log into it after a reboot? Do I need to lug it back up to do that? Or is there some kind of vnc software/service that is activated on reboot that will allow me to login?

 

[drag]

Make sure that Openssh server is installed and use that. It's a secure way to log into your server so you can use the command line. A nice client for that in windows is putty.exe

Otherwise vnc will work, although I don't use it at all so I can't give much info on it.. it's a bit different in Linux then Windows.

 

[nweaver]

once you realize how nice linux remote access is, you will wonder what windows is doing to compete with openssh

 

[sigs3gv]

If you absolutely need a GUI, you can try enabling vino in GNOME.

 

[cliftonite]

Ok, I have another question before I even get to this. I added another drive to my sata raid controller card and created a raid-0 mirror. Now how do I go about initializing/using that?

 

[Bluestealth]

Enable remote X sessions.
Desktop, System Settings, Login Screen, XDMCP, enable XMDMCP.
Get cygwin if you have windows or just type "X -query "server IP/name" " from another linux box.

If you need to go the cygwin route you need to get the openssl package under net, and under X11 you need xorg-x11-base package.

After using this setup I would describe VNC as amateurish 🙂

Autologin for VNC is the next solution and that is on the general tab of the above login
screen settings.

ssh is nice if you don?t need or want the gui, putty rocks for this.

If you want to create a batch file to launch your server with cygwin without launching the prompt, this works?.

RemoteX.bat

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i -c "Xwin.exe -query 192.168.2.40"

Even create a desktop shortcut to that with a high resolution tux icon hehe.