remote desktop problem

[Patton Echols]

On 09/18/2009 01:32 PM, komputes wrote:
> Patton Echols wrote:
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>> On 09/18/2009 12:44 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:23:30 -0700
>>> Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> Get the fusion-icon, at least for Hardy.  Right click and choose your
>>> manager from the list.
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
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>> I will check that out. 
>>
>> Is there a command line way to do it?  If I don't know that I will need 
>> to access my desk computer I might not click the icon.  What I'd like to 
>> be able to do is set up the ssh tunnel with port forwarding, from that 
>> command line, turn off compiz remotely, then start the VNC viewer.  Is 
>> that possible?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --PE
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> First port forward port 22 to your computer using your router
> administration web page.
>   

Right,  I have not done this yet because I am still testing inside my 
LAN.  This is to be the last step, that way if there is a failure, I 
know it has to do with the router port forward, and not the rest of the 
setup.
> Use OpenSSH to (-N) Keep the line alive/open, and bind (-L)
> (client_side_port)<remote_host>(remote_port)
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> ssh -N -L 5900:192.168.0.4:5900 user at remote.ssh.host.com
>   

<remote_host> ??  As I understand it, the ssh server will interpret 
localhost to be itself anyway.  Wouldn't the syntax you gave be if I was 
going doing "laptop ssh -L 5901:remote-ssh-server:5900 
<user>@<some-desktop-that-isn't-ssh-server>

Also, the syntax I gave DOES work, the problem is connecting to the vnc 
client.  Thanks though, it really helps me to think these things through.

(And since I have not done the forwarding in my router yet, i cannot 
test the syntax you suggest until tonight, but I will when I get home.)

> In this case we will create a tunnels for vnc by logging into
> remote.ssh.host.com as user. All requests to localhost:5900 will be
> tunnelled through ssh to the remote host. Whenever a connection is made
> to these ports, the connection will be forwarded over the secure ssh
> tunnel. If you are using System > Preferences > Remote Desktop, your
> repote computer will need to be logged into gnome to be able to log into it.
>   

Right, and that is the problem.  Because I get the password prompt from 
the builtin client, but authentication fails.  So it appears that my 
problem is that that vnc server and I have a disagreement over what the 
password is supposed to be.


--PE