Hi Frank,
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:36 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Saturday 26 June 2010 04:54 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On 25/06/10 21:51, Suvayu Ali wrote: --snip--
If you prefer a gui, you could try a vnc client or nx client over ssh tunnelling. But I don't use the gui a lot.
GL
I prefer a gui, as it is easier to explain to non-linux people, how to go about things. To do so, I need to understand the methods myself. They (as I at times) see a terminal, they see hardship.
Another, probably simpler (less terminal and more gui oriented), thing to try would be to use remmina and its built in capabilities for ssh tunnelling for vnc. But again I have never used it.
I just tried this yesterday, it works seamlessly. To try this, start a vncserver on the remote machine with something like,
user@remote$ vncserver :<display> -geometry <preferred_resolution>
You can leave this running if you prefer. Then you can skip this step for subsequent connections. However I would suggest turning of things like screensavers if your remote system is shared by other users.After this you can connect with remmina like this,
VNC tab: -------- remote.example.com:<display> user name:user password:<vnc_password>
SSH tab: ------------------- enable SSH tunnelling select same server port 22 user name:user authentication:either password or use ssh keys
Hopefully this is what you were looking for.