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On 2011-12-18 18:56, caf4926 wrote:
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> I think I did make some suggestions for you
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> I think Carlos was a little surprised you didn’t know your system.
> Perhaps he overlooked your earlier comments.
No, I did not. Shame on the employer for not forcing the previous
technicians to document things, and for letting them go. It is a production
server, so what? Blame the boss for not doing things right. I have been in
those shoes myself. A task the previous technician would have done in a
week or two I took a year to do because it was not documented. Not my fault.
If they know Windows, I don’t understand how they can not know if Windows
is the guest or the host. Use the system you know about to check things. It
is easy: the guest will not have vmware installed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
caf4926, can I interface with the opensuse linux computer using vnc? how do I get the gui started? is it gnome?
On 2011-12-19 21:46, arcolino wrote:
> caf4926, can I interface with the opensuse linux computer using vnc?
Only if it was prepared.
> how do I get the gui started? is it gnome?
Login. Login on that computer keyboard and display. What do you see?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
vnc is not running on the opensuse linux computer, how do I install it?
Can we assume from this comment you are working remotely to the openSUSE machine?
I can’t advise on VNC - Never used it. But it would have to be setup on the 11.3 machine.
There are some useful guides here: openSUSE SuSE Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials by Swerdna (thanks to @swerdna)
I use ssh -X
But that doesn’t really get you a desktop.
On 2011-12-19 22:26, arcolino wrote:
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> vnc is not running on the opensuse linux computer, how do I install it?
Start YaST, select the package management module, use the search option to
locate it, and install if not installed.
However, I would not do it. You know little about Linux and you said it is
a production machine, so the less you touch it the better. Use standard
tools already installed, like ssh. You can run graphical tools easily from
another computer running Linux, which you can use for learning as well.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
boss wants it installed on all the boxes he said find out to do it on your own, he wants me to learn. thank you for your help. I found this real cool link that walks you through the install using rpm, but I did read somewhere to use YaST. Thank both you guys again keeping me on track and pointing me in right direction.
On 2011-12-19 22:56, arcolino wrote:
> boss wants it installed on all the boxes he said find out to do it on
> your own, he wants me to learn. thank you for your help.
IMNSHO, your boss is not too clever. Anyway, it is his money. 
> I found this
> real cool link that walks you through the install using rpm, but I did
> read somewhere to use YaST. Thank both you guys again keeping me on
> track and pointing me in right direction.
At least, do not try in the production machine. Try on another pair of
machines. When you learn how to do it, then do it for real.
VNC is not a tool we normally use to administrate a Linux machine.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-12-19 23:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> VNC is not a tool we normally use to administrate a Linux machine.
Look, we don’t use VNC because the Linux graphical system is a
client/server implementation that natively allows to run an application in
one machine and view/interact on another machine halfway over the world if
need be. An application or the entire desktop. And with several people
doing the same simultaneously: the limit is the power, not the number of
licenses you bought.
VNC is used to have simultaneously the same desktop on two machines so that
you can teach another person how to do something. Remote administration is
not usually done that way. In Windows, yes.
In Linux, if I want to run YaST on another machine, I would do this:
local:~ > ssh -Y root@remote
Password:
Last login: Mon Dec 19 00:34:35 2011 from x.x.x.x
Have a lot of fun...
remote:~ # yast2 &
remote:~ #
and I get the remote “yast2” running graphically as an application in my
local machine. No need to use vnc!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)