Remote control of desktop

[Lance DeVooght]

Michael,

I've successfully gotten through step 3... sort of.

I can ssh into lance.dyndns.org from mom's laptop. However, when I ssh
from mom's laptop to lance.dyndns.org I have to login as a user
on the desktop ssh-server. Even though I created the key pair on mom's
and copied the public key file to the desktop ssh-server per the ssh howtos.

Furthermore, when I try "ssh lance" from mom's after creating her
~/.ssh/config and adding the lines as in step 3, I am prompted to
give a password for "mom at lance.dyndns.org". Yep, that's right, "mom."

Any idea where I am going wrong?

BTW, the ssh man pages are NO way to learn ssh. They (like most man pages)
are only god as a reference for those that already know the program.

The howtos, I have found, are only a little better. If you know of one that
is clear and easy for a ssh newbie to follow please tell me about it.

Regards,

Lance

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> Try this.  You'll need to have both your home system and your mom's
> system available.
> 1. Generate an ssh key for your mother.
> 2. Configure your home system and router so that she can "ssh
> lance.dyndns.org" (or whatever your home IP address is) and login to
> your machine.
> 3. On the laptop, setup her .ssh/config file so that she can login
> with just "ssh lance".  So you'll need a simple entry in the config
> file that looks like
> Host lance
>      Hostname lance.dyndns.org
> 4. Test that it works.
> 5. Add this line to the configuration your built in the previous step.
>     RemoteForward 5900 localhost:5900
> 6. "ssh lance" from the laptop and stay logged in.
> 7. Run a vnc server on the laptop on port 5900 (i.e. vnc port :0)
> 8. Test that it woks.
> 7. Try to vnc to localhost:0 from the desktop.
> 
> If all that works for you, then you just have to put steps 6 and 7
> into a script on the laptop and you are done.
> Michael