(depends of your remote environment)īetter than any VNC, even better than an X11VNC connection! Secured and compressed connection FTW. If you really need it, you can even start the remote graphical environment locally at your Mac's X11, simply running: ubuntu-sessionĮtc. On a remote Linux Mint env, i simply run: mintmenu& Select the desired service from the Custom Access list.
Select Allow remote login using SSH Choose which users can access your server using SSH. Select your server in the Server app sidebar, then click Settings. You can even launch only the system (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, etc.) Main Menu, and interact with the remote system from there, without the need of a full graphical front-end. By default, only members of the Administrators group have access to SSH. In order to forward remote apps to local X environment, you need to install X11 on your Mac (you can find it at apple support site): įrom the X11 app, open the terminal, and then access the remote host with: ssh -XC when logged, simply run the command for the desired app, ex: firefox, nautilus, thunderbird, whatever. There are several methods to accomplished that, depending of what you really need to do.
