Eric Martin wrote:
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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.
I can confirm that x11vnc is the one. I use it often.
Cheers,
Drew
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