[PLUG] configuring a server without X

[Sean Whitney]

I would agree with your friend.

Here is where ssh is very helpful.  You can install the gui application, it 
might require the xserver software.  Install what the application wants, but 
don't start the xserver.

Use ssh to export the display to a workstation running x and run your gui 
there.

Why MS2k requires a gui (and games) installed on a server is beyond me.

Sean

On Sunday 24 March 2002 13:28, you hammered at the keyboard:
> Howdy,
>
> I have a friend(?) who believes that a 'server' doesn't need X, and
> therefore puts minimal vid support (low end vid card and small cheap
> monitor) on them. Once they're running, the monitor is moved away...
>
> He's asked me for help, but some of the tools I have found for
> configuring want the GUI, and with no X support available ....
>
> Any ideas? Can you get there from here?
>
> -bk

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