Re: ssh & vnc: not for the lazy?

From: Eric Inazaki (eric_at_deadbeat.wustl.edu.invalid)
Date: 04/09/05 

Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:11:32 -0500

In article <d376ms$j92$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 pa@see.signature.invalid (Pierre Asselin) wrote:

> Eric <eric@deadbeat.wustl.edu> wrote:
> > How does one go about setting up a VNC session through
> > a SSH tunnel? I'm interested in knowing how many steps
> > are involved and, particularly, how many of those steps
> > have to be done every time you start a VNC session.
>
> On Linux, my vnc client has a -via option that takes care
> of setting up a tunnel. Something like
> vncviewer -via toto@server.org localhost:0
> but I'm on another computer and I can't check the details.
> I think the client is tightvnc.
>
> On Windows, I fire up PuTTY and iconify it. My session
> file already sets up a tunnel, whether I use it or not.
> After that I run the vnc viewer locally and connect
> to localhost:0 . There is a registry entry to change
> before the Windows VNC will accept to talk to itself
> like that.
>
> So: one step on Linux, two steps on Windows.

The -via option, is that analogous to the -X option
on ssh? Is the session file you mentioned a script
that's run with your .login or .*shrc file?

Do you use tightvnc for your server? Do you have
any thoughts on x11vnc?

Thanks for your comments.

eric

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