Remote desktop

[Matthew Clarke]

just to add to the putty suggestions, the specific feature you're looking
for is port forwarding. it will reroute your local VNC through the SSH
connection.  works like a charm.

here's a write-up:

http://people.hmdc.harvard.edu/~mathpre/vnc/putty/

On Feb 3, 2008 12:33 PM, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll give it a try.
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I use MindTerm (it's free, written in Java, so runs on just about
> anything)
> > : http://www.appgate.com/mindterm/
> > Once logged in through SSH, I open 2 tunnels : ports 5801 and 5901 from
> > remote host to localhost
> >  Then on the Ubuntu machine, I launch vnc (creates a new session) or
> vino
> > (logs me into my local session)
> > Then from my Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac or whatever I have at hand, I
> just
> > launch "vncviewer localhost:1"
> >
> > (:1 and 5X01 imply virtual display :1 on the Ubuntu machine - if your
> > display is YY then use :YY and 58YY and 59YY)
> >
> > If your Ubuntu has the java applets for the VNC server, you can open
> (once
> > the SSH tunnels are up) http://localhost:5801/ and you get a Java VNC
> > instead of having to run a locally installed VNC viewer (nice from a
> > cybercafe).
> >
> > I actually have a web page on my home server on which I serve the
> > MindTerm.jar applet... so that from any point on the internet, including
> > hotel PCs, customer systems, cybercafes, I go to my web server and
> launch
> > MindTerm, then open the tunnels, then open http://localhost:5801/ and
> voila,
> > I'm looking at my machine from a relatively secure connection - that is,
> > provided there are no key loggers on the cybercafe's machine, which is a
> > different issue)
> >
> > Gilles.
> >
> >
> > On 2/3/08, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > How can I access my 7.10 desktop over SSH from Window XP Pro?
> > >
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