Hi Frank, On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:36 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 04:54 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 25/06/10 21:51, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> --snip-- >>> >>> If you prefer a gui, you could try a vnc client or nx client over ssh >>> tunnelling. But I don't use the gui a lot. >>> >>> GL >> >> I prefer a gui, as it is easier to explain to non-linux people, >> how to go about things. To do so, I need to understand the methods >> myself. They (as I at times) see a terminal, they see hardship. >> > Another, probably simpler (less terminal and more gui oriented), thing > to try would be to use remmina and its built in capabilities for ssh > tunnelling for vnc. But again I have never used it. >
I just tried this yesterday, it works seamlessly. To try this, start a vncserver on the remote machine with something like, u...@remote$ vncserver :<display> -geometry <preferred_resolution> You can leave this running if you prefer. Then you can skip this step for subsequent connections. However I would suggest turning of things like screensavers if your remote system is shared by other users.After this you can connect with remmina like this, VNC tab: -------- remote.example.com:<display> user name:user password:<vnc_password> SSH tab: ------------------- enable SSH tunnelling select same server port 22 user name:user authentication:either password or use ssh keys Hopefully this is what you were looking for. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
