Hi Andy, To the best of my knowledge SSH is not designed for "Screen Sharing", and provides no way to do it.
When you connect to a remote machine via SSH, you are creating a new user session, completely separate from any local user sessions (or other remote session) already running on the remote machine. When you use SSH with X server forwarding (the -X option), the GUIs are actually being generated on your local machine, not on the remote machine at all (in fact, the remote machine need not even have X installed). The combination of the fact that each SSH session is isolated from other user sessions, and the fact that X over SSH runs locally means that there is no way to "screen share" using SSH. Some terminal multiplexers (i.e. GNU Screen) will allow you to perform terminal "screen sharing" between multiple users, and you can use this in conjunction with SSH to share your shell, but I don't believe the sharing capabilities extend to X sessions and GUIs. If you want a traditional GUI "screen sharing" experience, you'll probably need to seek out a program designed for that purpose like TeamViewer or another remote help/desktop app. If you use Google Chrome, it also offer a multi-platform remote desktop/sharing app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp. Some versions of VNC may also support this functionality, but I'm less familiar with that. In short, SSH isn't really designed for sharing your session or screen with local users. You'll have to look for another program if you want to do that. Good luck, Andy WMFO [email protected] www.andysayler.com On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, VE4PER/ Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone used ssh connection to actually view a remote desktop as a > way to see and trblshoot w/s problems? > > I use ssh -a -X userid@IPaddress with server running in the w/s allowing > login. It gives me terminal access in real time and allows me to run new > instances of window/GUI pgms remotely, however I am not able to actually > see or share the existing desktop. > > Is there something wrong with the syntax I am using to gain remote > desktop GUI access and control to be able to be more assistance to the > remote operator? > > Have used other viewers as well, yet seem only to be able to run in > console mode or X displays of specific applications rather than viewing > full desktop? > > Thanks > > Andy > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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