From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLJQh-0004xU-VQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43AEAE02BF; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCF7E02BF for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCB666D37 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.464 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.464 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.135, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LT3etBI+FkQE for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DB466EC9 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLJQP-00007G-Eh for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:13 +0000 Received: from c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.162.73.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:13 +0000 Received: from reader by c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:33 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87iquyj6ym.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87bq0xux1q.fsf@newsguy.com> <20080717220400.edec3e28.david@blamire-brown.co.uk> <87vdz2j932.fsf@newsguy.com> <48841B58.4090907@usa.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s2OQo4WbEE3I7q4rBuwyNUjobRM= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d94347e8-c39b-4216-883e-97059c57a33a X-Archives-Hash: 7568a892028816035b8cd67e89973239 Josh Cepek writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> David Blamire-Brown 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. [...] Thanks for the tips... it turned out to be nothting worse than needing to add the display number to the connect attempt like: host:display I had only been putting the host name since that is how I connect between windows machines or from linux to windows 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.