using vino/vncviewer

[Hubertus Hiden]

paul hendrick wrote:

>Hi,
>i've never used vnc before, and i'm interested in trying it out to
>control my computer while i'm in uni.
>i'm connected to the internet through a router though, so how can i
>connect from an outside computer, directly to this pc?
>
>also, if i run vncviewer localhost.localdomain:0, i get a vnc window
>with my desktop visible, but this desktop respawns another one, then
>another one within that one, and so on. so it's not usable for me.
>it this normal?
>
>cheers!
>
>  
>
Hi Hendrik !

In case you have a hardware router you could simply use portforwarding
This is mostly accessible from the routers configuration page. There you 
can specify that ie. Port 5950 (but im not sure) gets forwared to 
IP_of_VNC_server:5950.

Another (much more secure) solution but more complicated to setup would 
be the use of ssh.

Maybe you could give us some more details...

Hubertus

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