Comments on: Use your home computer from work (VNC over SSH) http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/ Tim McCormack, distilled. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nathaniel Schwartz http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7428 Nathaniel Schwartz Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:48:39 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7428 Thanks Tim. I don't have that option under xubuntu. I'll have to read up some more on this stuff and see if I can get it working. I might have to go with regular ubuntu. :-( Thanks Tim. I don't have that option under xubuntu. I'll have to read up some more on this stuff and see if I can get it working. I might have to go with regular ubuntu. :-(

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7421 Tim McCormack Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:54:50 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7421 @Nathaniel: If it helps, here's what my <a href="http://www.brainonfire.net/blog/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Screenshot-Remote%20Desktop%20Preferences.png" title="Screenshot" rel="nofollow">Remote Desktop preferences dialog looks like</a>. It's not a tab, just a fieldset. The relevant packages I have installed are vino, vnc-common, and xvncserver. I also have tsclient, but I think that is only a client for Microsoft Remote Desktop. @Nathaniel: If it helps, here's what my Remote Desktop preferences dialog looks like. It's not a tab, just a fieldset. The relevant packages I have installed are vino, vnc-common, and xvncserver. I also have tsclient, but I think that is only a client for Microsoft Remote Desktop.

]]> By: Nathaniel Schwartz http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7409 Nathaniel Schwartz Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:32:52 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-7409 I'm using xubuntu edgy and trying to follow your guide. It seems like it will all work, except that I don't have a "sharing" tab on my gdm. Any ideas how to get this, or what additional software I might need for xfce? Thanks! I'm using xubuntu edgy and trying to follow your guide. It seems like it will all work, except that I don't have a "sharing" tab on my gdm. Any ideas how to get this, or what additional software I might need for xfce? Thanks!

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1977 Tim McCormack Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:15:37 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1977 I assume you are getting the error when you try to open a VNC session, and that you have SSH working. Test the VNC server setup: If you temporarily open up port 5900 on your home computer and don't start the SSH tunnel, can you connect a VNC client to your home machine from remotely? Test the SSH tunnel setup: Do you have a web server on your home computer? Try building an SSH tunnel on port 80 and visiting localhost:80 in your web browser at work. I assume you are getting the error when you try to open a VNC session, and that you have SSH working.

Test the VNC server setup: If you temporarily open up port 5900 on your home computer and don't start the SSH tunnel, can you connect a VNC client to your home machine from remotely?

Test the SSH tunnel setup: Do you have a web server on your home computer? Try building an SSH tunnel on port 80 and visiting localhost:80 in your web browser at work.

]]> By: bhanu http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1975 bhanu Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:40:32 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1975 i am getting an error saying network connection refused... i am getting an error saying network connection refused...

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1475 Tim McCormack Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:14:13 +0000 http://www.brainonfire.net/2006/08/21/vnc-over-ssh/#comment-1475 @ron: All the sshd files are daemon-related, which means you probably don't have the ssh-server installed. *smacks forehead* Oh, my instructions are incomplete. Just issue "sudo apt-get ssh" and you should be fine. That will install both the openssh-client and <strong>openssh-server</strong> packages. No wonder it wasn't working for you! <strong>Edit:</strong> @ron: We appear to have cross-posted. In any case, I'm glad you posted, because otherwise this howto would have stood incorrect indefinitely. @ron: All the sshd files are daemon-related, which means you probably don't have the ssh-server installed. *smacks forehead* Oh, my instructions are incomplete. Just issue "sudo apt-get ssh" and you should be fine. That will install both the openssh-client and openssh-server packages. No wonder it wasn't working for you!

Edit: @ron: We appear to have cross-posted. In any case, I'm glad you posted, because otherwise this howto would have stood incorrect indefinitely.

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