Brad Falzon wrote:
Never a good idea to run X when you dont need to. All Administration can be done via config files on the command-line and any system-config gui programs usually have a commandline replacement anyway. But if you really wanted X check out 'yum grouplist' and 'yum groupinstall "X Window System"'
but it's possible, and you can run a secure connexion from elsewhere, either using a VPN (I use and recommend openvpn), or tunnelling VNC through ssh.
Here's an example of what I do to configure routers & printers remotely, using their web interfaces. I'm using this coz I think the port numbers are more obvious:-)
In a terminal window (eg Konsole) ssh -L8080:192.168.2.254:80 sysadmin.office.lan
Then I point Mozilla or something at http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Moz connects to port 8080 locally, ssh forwards the connexion to an (mine) admin computer at work & ssh there forwards it to the gateway box. Rather than going through my VPN, I could use the external name for my office as ssh still connects through to my desktop.
vnc, smtp and many other TCP protocols can be forwarded.