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remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - yungjoon - 05-24-2022

Hi,

I would like to use my "blower" Octane remotely from my "silent" Linux Ubuntu pc. Both are connected to the same network.

What the best software to do this ? What is your experience ?

Ideally I would like to remotely use graphical applications.

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - robespierre - 05-24-2022

See http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-98-fall/Assignments/remotemesa.html

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - stormy - 05-24-2022

Also see: https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/x11-forwarding-adventures.383/
and: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3076.html

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - yungjoon - 05-25-2022

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I saw that there is remmina (remmina.org). Someone experimented it ?

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - stormy - 05-25-2022

You're looking at a modern VNC client ... IRIX is an ancient operating system, you can't be looking at modern software like that unless you try porting it yourself.

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - Raion - 05-25-2022

There is a few VNC solutions but none of them are going to be ideal for what you're looking for.

If you can't use remote X then my suggestion would be to just suck it up and use the real system. It is possible to replace some fans to quiet the thing down as for one thing if your system is really loud it could mean that some of the fan bearings are dying

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - yungjoon - 05-26-2022

Ok, thanks for all your advises. Nothing is better than sitting in front of an octane and living with it.

Formerly, when I worked as CAD engineer, there were SUN ultra and SGI stations. When I had to test applications, I remember from any worksation, SUN or SGI, I could remotely execute applications (ex.: CATIA V4) on other using:

>rsh remote_station_name
>setenv DISPLAY local_station_name:0.0

I hoped there exist solutions like this on linux.

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - Raion - 05-26-2022

Remote X is less effective on SGI due to OpenGL and divergence between X versions, plus the inefficient nature of Remote X (it sends bitmaps)

VNC has been investigated but it's not great.

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - stormy - 05-26-2022

(05-25-2022, 06:35 AM)yungjoon Wrote:  Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I saw that there is remmina (remmina.org). Someone experimented it ?

(05-26-2022, 03:15 PM)yungjoon Wrote:  Ok, thanks for all your advises. Nothing is better than sitting in front of an octane and living with it.

Formerly, when I worked as CAD engineer, there were SUN ultra and SGI stations. When I had to test applications, I remember from any worksation, SUN or SGI, I could remotely execute applications (ex.: CATIA V4) on other using:

>rsh remote_station_name
>setenv DISPLAY local_station_name:0.0

I hoped there exist solutions like this on linux.


Just try out X11 Forwarding, in those links I sent you. It isn't too difficult to get going. I was opening apps from my Octane onto my Linux laptop quite easily this way.

RE: remote desktop irix 6.5.27 -> linux ubuntu 20.04 - jpstewart - 05-26-2022

(05-26-2022, 03:15 PM)yungjoon Wrote:  >rsh remote_station_name
>setenv DISPLAY local_station_name:0.0

I hoped there exist solutions like this on linux.

On Linux these days, rsh is often a symlink to ssh. 

You can do 'ssh -X octane' from the Linux box, assuming you have an SSH server running on the Octane.  And it handles setting the DISPLAY environment variable automatically for you.  (Depending on which version of SSH is running on the IRIX side, you may have to tweak some settings to allow older algorithms that are now deprecated on Linux.)

I'm on Debian where there's an 'rsh-redone-client' package that will install a real rsh client.  Then you can do 'xhost +octane' followed by your old rsh & setenv commands and that should work, too.  I'd only do that on a trusted LAN, for security reasons.

As Raion pointed out, some stuff may not forward correctly.  GL apps in particular.  I've often had trouble with gr_osview not displaying on Linux, for example.  But plenty of other stuff just works.