I use SSH ( secure shell) on our LAN.
I just set the SSH config on the remote system to allow X forwarding, 

Then it is as simple as 
ssh machinename (plus any options you want )

Once you are logged on to a shell on the remote system, running a program 
that uses X will cause it to run it's GUI on your LOCAL X Server.

It just pops up as if it were local.
Dead easy and ssh will compress the data stream for you if you want.

Peter Popov wrote:

> I have two machines running Linux. One of them is running X and the
> other is not (it has it installed but I don't want to run it since I'm
> testing a program I'm writing which is using svgalib). How do I go
> about making a X application from one machine use the screen on the
> other machine? I've set DISPLAY, of course, but it complains about
> permissions. How do I set those?
> 
> The machine running X has Slackware Linux 8.0, XFree86 4.0.3 and KDE
> 2.1, if that's of any help.
> 
> Another issue I have is with ssh. I have sshd running on both machines
> but I can only log on in one of them, the other is refusing the
> connection (this is kinda annoying since I want to use CVS over ssh.)
> What could be wrong?
> 
> 
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> Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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