M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:28, Alexander.Herr@csiro.au wrote:
I am trying to use KDE desktop sharing. However I am unable to login into the remote desktop via http Some additional details [ how you are going to use this in your setup ] would be great... because there are several good ways to do this.
I share several of my systems [ and multiple desktops ] across my network using vncserver, and tightvnc tunnels over ssh, to allow many users access to several (a few) servers via shared desktops.
I can provide a point-by-point howto, but the big picture for now is this:
First each server machine runs headless. From remote a user can start a vncserver (from their userid home dir) which starts a virtual frame buffer---and starts KDE. [ some of my users start gnome, but that's another story ] Then the user issues a remote background command over an ssh tunnel that starts vncviewer [ running on the server machine ] and then pipes the vncserver back over the X11 ssh session... including password requests etc all compressed and encrypted. This works *very* well for local area nets with adequate speeds, eliminates the need to open a vnc port on the server, and keeps the whole shabang secure. If the desktop needs to be *shared* then the vncserver is started with the option to share. I have used this technique for net-meetings and for collaboration... doesn't work well across the WAN... but for local setups its fine. You can do a similar thing using the vncviewer from the client machine and logging into an open vnc server port on the host... but if you do this its a better idea to change the default server port number to something else---- otherwise, its not a good idea.
Directly logging in to a remote desktop isn't such a good idea... also, its not a real good idea to log directly into an open vnc port... or another way to put this is that it is not a good idea to keep a vnc server port open. With the first technique the only port open is ssh. Shipping vnc over ssh is more secure, if not much faster----even compressed.
Is this what you have in mind, or something else?
You might want to consider vncviewer -via hostname hostname:1. This will create a ssh connection to hostname with the same user id you are running from. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org