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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Josh Cepek <josh.cepek@×××.net> writes: |
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>> Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>>> David Blamire-Brown <david@××××××××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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>>>> I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH |
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>>>> (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details |
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>>>> off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem |
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>>>> to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite |
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>>>> remember why I ended up doing it, but I do remember that it worked. |
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>>> Well at least that sounds promising. I did see mention of that in |
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>>> some of my google searches but I wondered, If I had to use ssh, why |
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>>> wouldn't I just pull the X session on linux across with ssh alone. |
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>>> And forget about VNC. |
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>> Session persistence. [1] With VNC I can create a full desktop session |
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>> (I use Fluxbox because it's lightweight) and connect to it as needed |
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>> from any system with network access. This is great for my IM app. I |
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>> lock my firewall rules down to allow VNC only from localhost and ssh |
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>> tunnel all my connections (even on the LAN) because VNC's auth scheme |
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>> is dreadfully insecure. |
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> I had expected to be able to connect to the running X desktop but |
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> apparently that isn't going to happen. In other words I cannot view |
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> the running desktop from a remote machine but am forced to view a new |
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> or different desktop where none of the things I have running on :0 are |
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> available. |
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I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a vnc server |
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that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. |
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Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. |
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HTH |
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Eric Martin |
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