Often one forgets to include the -display option with the result that nothing happens on the user’s display while the graphical user interface is opened on the server’s monitor.

It is much easier, however, to make a local script on the remote workstation, and let this script take care of remote login and set up the correct display. Then it all looks like starting a local application (except, of couse, that the user can only see the local file system if this has been exported and is mounted on the server).

An example of a such a script for remote use of EasyCopy is given here.

Example of script for remote access

#!/bin/sh
xhost myserver
rsh myserver ecx -display `hostname`:0.0 $*

Substitute myserver with the name of the server on which EasyCopy is running. The remote workstation is automatically substituted for `hostname`.

The script can be placed in a shared directory. You can make the script accessible for those users for whom you have bought EasyCopy display licenses and put it on these users' path.

It is required that the user has a home directory on the server.

The script can work without prompt for password if that home directory contains an .rhosts file which tells from which nodes the user can login without being prompted for a password.