Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

[Drew Tomlinson]

Eric Martin wrote:
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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
>>>>> (using putty on windows).  But I can't remember the exact details
>>>>> off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem
>>>>> to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite
>>>>> 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
>>>> some of my google searches but I wondered, If I had to use ssh, why
>>>> wouldn't I just pull the X session on linux across with ssh alone.
>>>> And forget about VNC.
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>>> Session persistence. [1] With VNC I can create a full desktop session
>>> (I use Fluxbox because it's lightweight) and connect to it as needed
>>> from any system with network access. This is great for my IM app. I
>>> lock my firewall rules down to allow VNC only from localhost and ssh
>>> tunnel all my connections (even on the LAN) because VNC's auth scheme
>>> is dreadfully insecure.
>>>
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>> I had expected to be able to connect to the running X desktop but
>> apparently that isn't going to happen.  In other words I cannot view
>> the running desktop from a remote machine but am forced to view a new
>> or different desktop where none of the things I have running on :0 are
>> available.
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> I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that.  I do know there's a vnc server
> that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one.
>  Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
I can confirm that x11vnc is the one.  I use it often.

Cheers,

Drew

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