remote desktop problem
Patton Echols
p.echols at comcast.net
Fri Sep 18 19:23:30 UTC 2009
I am having some difficulty reaching my desktop computer from my
laptop. Currently I am testing on my in house lan, but the goal is to
be able to reach the desktop from work using ssh. I am close but can't
seem to get "the last ten yards." Here is what I've done so far:
On the desktop, used System | Preferences | Remote Desktop to allow
connection and gave a password.
I had set this up previously and given a password. When trying it
yesterday I received an authentication failure message. Assuming that I
had written down the password incorrectly, I reset the password tried
again, same result. My attempts to connect from my laptop were:
Attempt #1
patton at laptop:$ vncviewer <ipaddress>:5900
and
patton at laptop:$ vncviewer localhost:5901
(after connecting via ssh as below)
In each case I do get the authentication dialog that asks for a
password, but then fails. So the vnc server is running, but . . . My
two thoughts are these: First, that the new passwords are not read, as
if the vnc server needs to re-read them, but I can not find a way to
force that to happen and can't find a server process. (ps -e | grep vnc
does not return anything, nor does ... rdesktop or anything else I could
think of.)
Second, in another thread someone said to be sure to turn off compiz.
Ok, how do I do that? And then turn it back on? W/o breaking
something? The only thing I could find was the suggestion to "metacity
--replace" I tried this assuming that if metacity was not installed, it
would just say "bash: metacity: command not found" Well, the command is
there and broke the desktop, I had to logout and back in to fix it.
Attempt #2
I installed tightVNC on the desktop, created a password. Then connected
like this:
patton at laptop:$ ssh -C patton at 192.168.0.4 -L 5901:localhost:5903
Then started vncserver
patton at desktop:$ vncserver :3
Then from a separate terminal window;
patton at desktop:$ vncviewer localhost:5901
This works, but the problem is it does not give my existing desktop, it
gives a new desktop. What I want is to be able to interact with the
desktop I left behind.
I get the same result if I ssh in using -L 5901:localhost:5901 I think
that the existing desktop is desktop "0: But if I try and start
vncserver :0 I am told that a vnc server is already running on desktop
0. I think it must be the "remote desktop", but as noted above, I can't
figure out how to kill the existing server to use another one.
So are there thoughts about what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
--PE
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