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On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hilco Wijbenga writes: |
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>> I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a |
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>> non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me |
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>> to do so. Great. |
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> I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more |
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> intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people access the |
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> same session at once. So I (being remote) tried starting a session with |
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> NX, running KDE, which has a VNC feature, so the other person (with the |
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> session runnin in his fast LAN) could attach via VNC. But tit did not |
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> work well due some color bug. |
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Mmmh, that's disappointing. Would you mind having a look at |
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http://www.nomachine.com/products.php "NX Free Edition"? That gave me |
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the impression it was exactly what I was looking for. |
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>> My problem is that I don't have a routable IP address. My ISP gives me |
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>> a 192.x.x.x IP which is sort of nice because the bad guys can't see me |
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>> ... but neither can the good guys. :-) (On top of that I have my own |
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>> network with NAT set up so I can share my Internet connection among my |
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>> various machines.) |
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>> I do have root access to a (Debian) server with a static IP with a |
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>> hosting company. So now I'm wondering if I can somehow take advantage |
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>> of that static IP address. How would I do that? What would I need to |
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>> set up on that server to allow my partner to reach my box? |
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> Setting a forward route with iptables would be the standard idea I'd |
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> think. But I'd probably just set up an SSH tunnel, like this: |
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> ssh -R :5900:localhost:5900 debian-server |
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> So when someone connects to port 5900 on the debian server, the traffic |
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> is forwarded to port 5900 on your machine, which would run the VNC |
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> session. If the session should run on the non-linux guy's PC, he should |
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> start the tunnel using putty or something. See the ssh man page and the |
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> -R option. |
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Awesome, that's very simple. |