Greg Engel wrote:
On Thursday 20 November 2003 4:28 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
the panel at the bottom of the screen, but nothing else. Even to get this far it is painfully slow (I am on a 300+K DSL connection). Anyone have any ideas on what is happening here?
I use vnc a LOT and really count on it. I use the tightVNC. I would suggest download tight vnc, compile it and install it.
The run vncserver :5 (or whatever) to start a simple vncserver session and make sure you can access that simple configuration from home.
I assume you are not really attempting to access the vnc session directly over the internet without forming an ssh session or some other encryption method into play first.
Keep in mind vncviewer does have an option for ssh tunneling.
Have you verified the vncserver is working on the local LAN? Can you access the vnc session from another box?
Greg Engel
I finally got this working. I was trying too many different approaches at once and getting nowhere. I finally did the following: 1. (KDE) Control Center ---> Internet & Network ---> Desktop Sharing 2. Checked "Allow uninvited connections" and "Allow uninvited connections to control the desktop" 3. Provided a good password 4. Connected to the remote machine via ssh and forwarding ports: ssh -C -X -L 5905:remote_ip:5900 remote_user@remotehost ## This allows for a secure/encrypted connection and makes the remote ## VNC server look as if it were running on the local machine 5. Start the vncviewer for the localhost port supplied above: vncviewer localhost:5 6. You will then be prompted for the password that was set in step 3. This works wonderfully. I have not tried tightVNC, but I plan to do that in the near future to see if it enhances this experience at all. I had seen in the archives where one person (Damian O'Hara) was able to get this working using rdesktop. I could not get that to work. I would continually get this result: ~>rdesktop -g 1600x1200 -f -p - localhost:5 ERROR: connect: Connection refused I will research it further as well and if I get it working I will post my results. Thanks for all the input, Darrell Cormier