On Mon, November 21, 2005 5:15 pm, Kin C Wong wrote: > Jamie Furtner wrote: > > >> By itself, that sets up the SSH session to forward X11 connections from >> the X11 client (machine you've connected to) to your X11 server (local >> X >> server). >> >> Generally you won't easily be able to run a full KDE session through >> SSH - >> you already have a window manager running and I don't think KDE will let >> itself start. What you could do is run X11 applications (KDE or >> otherwise) and display them on your local X server. For instance, after >> opening a SSH session (with the -X option), type in mozilla at the >> prompt and a Mozilla window should pop(assuming that you have Mozilla on >> the server - if you don't, try konsole or konqueror. You'll need to open >> the SSH session from within an X terminal window. >> >> What you're probably better off looking at is VNC or FreeNX - they're >> graphics based remote connectivity instead of a console and can be >> considerably quicker then proxying X sessions over SSH, based on my >> experience (they're actually usable!) >> >> Jamie >> >> >> > If you are using VNC (don't know enough about FreeNX yet), are you still > connecting using ssh? From what I understand, VNC is not secure. > > Secondly, will you be able to see the server computer. I believe if > you connect to the server using ssh, you can vnc to any other computer in > that network segment if you have access. > > I will try running Mozilla from the prompt to see if I get anything. > > > Thanks
VNC isn't secure normally, that's right. I don't think that any of the linux VNC connections are encrypted yet -- at least, not that I've seen. SSH can proxy arbitrary TCP connections as well (what I think you're talking about), so you could proxy the VNC connection over the SSH to the server and/or to a client on the same network as the server. The syntax for that would be ssh -L59xx:<vnchost>:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then use a VNC client to connect to localhost:xx and the connection is proxied over the SSH connection and therefore encrypted. You could include multiple -L... options to proxy multiple ports to different hosts, and this isn't limited to VNC connections. Nearly anything that runs over a normal TCP connection can be proxied using this method. Jamie _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
