Hi I've got a small problem with vnc over an ssh tunnel. (sshvnc is a simplied form of ssvnc given in the ssvnc port.) I'm going to try to cure it myself, so I'm just reporting here.
I have a virtual server with mythic-beasts, an openbsd-5.5-stable qemu image running on a physical debian host. I can ssh into the physical host for the admin console of the vs. I can vnc into the vs unencrypted and I can ssh directly into the vs. My aim is to put the vnc through an ssh tunnel using sshvnc, especially as Mythic-Beasts does not offer ssl. Sshvnc should do this automatically but it is failing. There is a fleeting error message which I managed to capture with scrot. This yielded the commands behind the gui: $ sshvnc ... Running ssh: env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/ssvnc/./lim_accept.so ssh -x -x -f -t -C -L 5930:localhost:6009 "[email protected]" "sleep 15" Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. [email protected]'s password: [username] admin> ssh_pid='' Running viewer: vncviewer -passwd /tmp/.vncauth_tmp.218211408475582834776.sUD935 -noraiseonbeep -encodings copyrect tight zrle zlib he_tile -encodings copyrect tight zrle zlib he_tile localhost:30 ConnectToTcpAddr[ipv4]: connect: Connection refused Trying ipv6 connection to 'localhost' ConnectToTcpAddr[ipv6]: trying ip-addr: '::1' ConnectToTcpAddr[ipv6]: connect: Connection refused Unable to connect to VNC server (localhost:5930) vncviewer command failed: O + set +xv Done. You Can X-out or Ctrl-C this Terminal if you like. Use Ctrl-\ to pause. = = = Mythic-Beasts support are telling me that the local port forwarding is wrong: "-L 5930:localhost:6009" should instead be "-L 5930:physical.host:6009" There are other little things I don't understand like "-x" twice in the "env LD_PRELOAD" line and "-encodings ... " twice in the vncviewer line but they are not so important. Regards Moss
