[Techtalk] Viewing desktops on a remote LAN

[Linda]

IIRC, you can use the -X switch on your ssh session and it will bring  
you the desktop. I'm not @ 'puter to verify the letter, but check the  
docs to find it.

Best,
LP

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 9, 2010, at 6:27 AM, David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a friend who, until today, was using a single computer  
> connecting
> to the internet via an ADSL modem.  I would use Putty to connect to  
> her
> computer via SSH, and also vncviewer to see her desktop: she was  
> running
> Gnome, and the settings allowed "Remote Desktop".
>
> She now has two computers connected via an ADSL router.  Both  
> computers
> run Ubuntu (8.06 and 9.10).  I have set things up so that I can log  
> into
> the router, and also SSH to both computers simultaneously: I use two
> different port numbers.
>
> So far, so good.
>
> In order to set everything up the way she wants it, I now want to be
> able to see her desktops, but I haven't figured out how to do this.
> Having read the Gnome help, I believe that the Gnome remote desktop is
> inherently insecure: I would prefer to tunnel things over SSH,  
> probably
> using vncserver and vncviewer (or perhaps Vinagre).
>
> Can anybody explain what I need to do to get this to work, please?
>
> David
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Techtalk mailing list
> Techtalk at linuxchix.org
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk