-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: > Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >>> David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> 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. >> 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. > > [...] > > > 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.
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. HTH - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiF6gkACgkQdheOldgSlQj16ACgmRTVt7cN94VyUje1DHOfEYCm L68AoMHMGLjy2LaWp2O7I8CjVykqu69e =WtZp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
