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| .Martin.... |
 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:57 pm |
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Hi all,
What's the BEST (we all love this word, don't we:)) remote desktop
control program/protocol to take over the mouse/keyboard to perform some
maintenance actions. I'm going to use ssh for most things, but sometimes
I'll need to have the access to the desktop. I'm going to connect from
slackware to ubuntu.
Thank you
regards
Martin |
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| Douglas Mayne... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:57 pm |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:57:54 +0000, .Martin. wrote:
Quote: Hi all,
What's the BEST (we all love this word, don't we:)) remote desktop
control program/protocol to take over the mouse/keyboard to perform some
maintenance actions. I'm going to use ssh for most things, but sometimes
I'll need to have the access to the desktop. I'm going to connect from
slackware to ubuntu.
Thank you
regards
Martin
tightVNC over ssh? There is a "howto" in Hack #12 "Linux
Server Hacks, v2"
Oh, yeah. YMMV.
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| jim dorey... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:41 am |
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Douglas Mayne wrote:
i know, windows, ew, but i use xming and do a lot of my configs in vi
though konsole, i know, ew, kde...i can of course run most graphical
apps through xming, even a whole lot of kde programs. regular x
protocols over the network, with ssh would work on almost any *nix that
way, couldn't hurt to try. |
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| Paweł Wlaź... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:51 pm |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, .Martin. wrote:
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Ok, I know how to enable X forwarding via ssh, but doesn't it just
enable opening particular programs in X? Is it also possible to connect
to the whole remote desktop using ssh?
yes, I use ssh tuneling to connect to remote desktop via vnc-server
and vnc-client. The software is available for many systems and works
for me for many years now.
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| goarilla... |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:44 pm |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:51 +0000, .Martin. wrote:
Quote: Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:47 -0500, .Martin. <xtd8865 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I know how to enable X forwarding via ssh, but doesn't it just
enable opening particular programs in X? Is it also possible to
connect to the whole remote desktop using ssh?
Nope, it doesn't. It's a separate remote login. That's intentional, and
an advantage in my opinion. You don't take control of the other
computer: instead, you are just another user logged in. If you want to
view the session of another person, you'll want to use something else.
Aaron W. Hsu
X forwarding via ssh will be extremely useful, however, I'm supposed to
troubleshoot any problems that my mate might encounter using ubuntu and
I imagine having access to his desktop would help in some cases.
regards
Martin
what about x11vnc ? |
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| Aaron W. Hsu... |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:48 pm |
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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:44:12 -0500, goarilla
<kevin.paulus at (no spam) skynet.remove-this.be> wrote:
Quote: X forwarding via ssh will be extremely useful, however, I'm supposed to
troubleshoot any problems that my mate might encounter using ubuntu and
I imagine having access to his desktop would help in some cases.
regards
Martin
what about x11vnc ?
VNC can be very helpful at times, but also can eat up resources and has
known security issues. Make sure to tunnel through SSH or something
similar to do this, and make sure that something easy is configured on the
client's machine to make it easy to turn this feature on and off to
conserve resources.
Aaron W. Hsu
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis |
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| .Martin.... |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:13 pm |
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goarilla wrote:
Quote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:51 +0000, .Martin. wrote:
Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:47 -0500, .Martin. <xtd8865 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I know how to enable X forwarding via ssh, but doesn't it just
enable opening particular programs in X? Is it also possible to
connect to the whole remote desktop using ssh?
Nope, it doesn't. It's a separate remote login. That's intentional, and
an advantage in my opinion. You don't take control of the other
computer: instead, you are just another user logged in. If you want to
view the session of another person, you'll want to use something else.
Aaron W. Hsu
X forwarding via ssh will be extremely useful, however, I'm supposed to
troubleshoot any problems that my mate might encounter using ubuntu and
I imagine having access to his desktop would help in some cases.
regards
Martin
what about x11vnc ?
Thanks, I'll definitely give it a try.
regards
Martin |
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