Remote Administration

[kennethhoff]

I have two questions..

1) I want to install remote admin and went into Yast, then enabled remote admin, and admitted it thru port in firewall. Went back to desktop and ran krdc and it connected, but the screen can't be exported back, it's all gray. Can it not export back a graphical screen? I used hostort through krdc and it works fine, it's just getting a graphical screen back.

2) when booting linux, how do you jump down to the boot options?

Thanks

[abhishek456]

when booting linux, how do you jump down to the boot options?

do you mean starting linux kernel with some options.if such is the case

when booting linux you can pass arguments to kernel at grub promt or [suse uses grub as default boot loader]

press esc while booting to showup grub menu if it doesn't shows up by default

[kennethhoff]

maybe I didn't explain right. I mean when suse is started, it comes up to the grub screen. I can choose one of the choice on the menu. But say I want to use the first choice of suse 10, but want to add or change some of the defaults I see at the bottom of the screen. How do i do that? I can't arrow down to it since it stops at the bottom menu choice. Tab doesn't work. Is there a key combo to jump down and add (pass) arguments to the boot options line?
I know I can do it in the boot loader in Yast, but I was trying to figure out how I do it here.
Thanks

[abhishek456]

when you highlight the choice you want to boot, press e which allows you to edit the default lines. You can edit things like root,kernel path and also supply additional arguments,intrd

after you finish editing press enter for your changes to be saved temporarlly.

for permanant changes to be made you must edit your grub.conf file present in /boot/grub folder

[devils casper]

maybe I didn't explain right. I mean when suse is started, it comes up to the grub screen. I can choose one of the choice on the menu. But say I want to use the first choice of suse 10, but want to add or change some of the defaults I see at the bottom of the screen. How do i do that? I can't arrow down to it since it stops at the bottom menu choice. Tab doesn't work. Is there a key combo to jump down and add (pass) arguments to the boot options line?
I know I can do it in the boot loader in Yast, but I was trying to figure out how I do it here.
Thanks

Highlight SuSe title and start typing new option or press Backspace key to remove existing options. Unlike other distros, SuSe uses modified GRUB Menu and you can add/delete options directly.

[texanmutt]

1) I want to install remote admin and went into Yast, then enabled remote admin, and admitted it thru port in firewall. Went back to desktop and ran krdc and it connected, but the screen can't be exported back, it's all gray. Can it not export back a graphical screen? I used hostort through krdc and it works fine, it's just getting a graphical screen back.
Thanks

I would like to know this also. I have the same issue.

[kennethhoff]

Here is what I did. Do this on both client and server.

1) vi or edit the /opt/gnome/share/gdm/defaults.conf file
2) In the xdmcp section, make enable=true
3) save file
4) #restart gdm <enter>
5) restart ssh by typing: #/etc/init.d/sshd restart

Try again and that should work.

If your still having issues, from a gnome desktop, go into computer-->applications, look for the sax2 (X11 configuration) icon. Go into the program and enable X11 forwarding for remote desktop.Do this on both sever and client.

Now it should work.

For secure connections:
From client: #ssh -X user@ip or host (ex: ssh -X root@192.168.2.2)
After entering password, try yast2 and it should work. If so, type yast2 -l which will list all gui modules yast2 has you can work with.

For insecure connection, use the krdc app.


Ken