vinagre is showing my local desktop and not the remote desktop

scar scar at drigon.com
Thu Sep 30 05:50:53 UTC 2010


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all, i am trying to connect to my remote computer (server) and view the
desktop using vinagre, over an SSH tunnel.  both systems are running 10.04

on the server, i have run vino-preferences and allowed users to connect
and control the computer, and i required a password.  the server is
behind a firewall and the only port forwarded is for SSH.

on the client, in my ~/.ssh/config file i have the following:

host server
        ForwardX11 yes
        Hostname xxx.yyy.zzz.www
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keypairs/scar.server
        LocalForward 9999 localhost:5900

then, i use 'ssh server' to log in.  in vinagre, i connect using VNC
protocol to "localhost:9999".  after several seconds i am asked for the
VNC password.  after i enter it, my own desktop shows up in vinagre!
very strange and rather alarming.  what the heck is going wrong?

thanks

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