TightVNC is not the answer. I do not want to spawn multiple X servers just to VNC. I want to VNC into my currently running desktop.
And Scott, I really appreciate your help thus far. Good man! On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:30:19 -0600, Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the great tips Scott. > > I use tightVNC ever since John Herbert recommended this utility about 3 > years ago right in front of the Hunan Restaurant on Sherwood Forest; the > food was great. Went back a few weeks ago to relive once again relive > the moment of my discovery of tightVNC but the quality dropped > tremendously. I still will continue to use tightVNC though. > > Anyway, I am not sure what x11vnc is. Due to the name of the client, > vncviewer, I imagine is a derivative of tightVNC. In any case, what I > wanted to mentioned is that you may want to play with the compression > and color settings, look at the man page. The performance is much better > but you must find a balance between beauty and speed. > > I must confess that I get so frustrated with this applications that > sometimes I just drop the ssh tunnel and live in the edge for a little > while and change the password as soon as I am done. In fact, I think > this has become the rule. Scary but then again so is drinking a few > beers at the brlug meetings and driving home immediately after;-) > > An alternative to running a dedicated server is to simply ssh to the box > and launch the vncserver when ever you need it. That what I do. It only > takes me under a minute to get it going. > > good luck. > > Alvaro Zuniga > > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:22, Scott Harney wrote: > > Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > > Is there anyone out there (echoes) who has set up a VNC server to > > > integrate to their desktop (that will run on their :0 display rather > > > than setting up new X servers)? Hopefully with Gentoo experience? > > > > Do it all the time. > > emerge x11-misc/x11vnc (might be masked) > > > > http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ is the home page for the package. Also > > look at http://libvncserver.sf.net (emerge net-libs/libvncserver) > > > > Here's how I use it: > > clienthost_xterm_A $ ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > remotehost $ x11vnc -display :0 > > (output snipped. x11vnc is now waiting for a connection) > > clienthost_xterm_B $ vncviewer localhost::5900 > > This connects to your tunnelled ssh port to the remote VNC server > > running on :0. Obviously you can use any vnc viewer you are comfortable > > with. You can leave x11vnc running or even run it out of inetd but I > > don't think either is a good idea for security reasons. vnc passwords > > are insecure so the on-demand method I typically use just relies on ssh > > for authentication and encryption. > > > > Here's another scenario. > > clienthost_xterm_A $ ssh -L 5900:remote_natted_box:5900 \ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > remotefirewall $ ssh remote_natted_box > > remote_natted_box $ x11vnc -display :0 > > (output snipped. x11vnc is now waiting for a connection) > > clienthost_xterm_B $ vncviewer localhost::5900 > > > > So you can ssh to a firewall and crate tunnels to machines behind them. > > Note that this works fine for Windows Term services (TCP port 3389) as > > well. You can tunnel multiple ports to multiple machines. Just do > > something like ssh -L5900:host1:5900 -L5901:host2:5900 remotefw . Then > > connection vncviewer to the appropriate port on localhost. man > > ssh_config to find out how to store these tunnels permanently in a > > config file so you don't have to type long command lines. > > > > Here's another one. You've got a remote machine that X has died on or > > you want to fire it up interactively on :0. > > clienthost_xterm_A $ ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > remote $ /etc/init.d/xdm start > > remote: $ sudo bash > > remote # x11vnc -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-oUSh -display :0N > > (the filename referenced here changes with any running instance of an X > > server so just use tab completion within bash) > > clienthost_xterm_B $ vncviewer localhost::5900 > > You can then disconnect and restart x11vnc as your normal user account > > after you log in to [x|g|k]dm . And of course :0 keeps on running so > > you can disconnect and reconnect as desired both remotely and locally > > (hint: make sure the sound volume is off if there are people around teh > > remote box :) ). > > > > x11vnc is like the X counterpart to the 'screen' terminal application. > > Very, very useful piece of software. And it builds and runs anywhere > > you run X so I've used it on various Linux distros, BSD's and Solaris. > > > > libvncserver also has another nifty example piece of software called > > LinuxVNC which exports the system text tty console over VNC. So yes, you > > can execute "startx" on the system console under LinuxVNC, diconnect, > > then fire up x11vnc to connect to the now running X session. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
