Re: xfree vnc and the local console

["Casey Boone" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

i do have kde installed, but i was wondering if there was a way to start it 
up from the command line.

as for what port to use, it is behind a firewall so i was going to use ssh 
tunnelling to get to it (go steve for the ssh tunnelling tutorial at the 
meeting the other night)

oh well, i guess i will set it up from the kcontrol panel (and hope it works 
with gnome as well as that is the DE i use)

Casey


>From: Travis Owens <openbook@linuxmds.com>

>Probably the easiest way to do this, is to install KDE 3.2 or so. The
>last few releases of KDE have included VNC capabilities directly into
>KDE. You can enable them in the KControl Panel.
>
>One way to help with security, is to force it to work on a different
>port. This can be done by assigning it to a different port when setting
>it up in KControl Panel. The other way is to use the firewall rules to
>redirect options to direct the port that's open in the firewall to the
>port that's assigned to VNC. I would recommend above 10000 since they're
>not probed as often.
>
>Hope that helps.
>Travis
>
>On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:58, Casey Boone wrote:
> > i would like to be able to control a machine remotely.  i know i can
> > currently do this with vncserver, but this gives me a completely new
> > "terminal" into the machine.  what i am wanting is to control the x 
>session
> > that is logged in locally at the machine.  i dont want to kick that user
> > off, i just want to join in the session with them. (of course "them" in 
>this
> > case is me logged in at home)
> >
> > i would like to be able to start this up from the command line over ssh 
>if
> > possible.  i read the man pages for Xvnc and vncserver, but they seemed 
>to
> > indicate that a new x session would be spawned and that i didnt see any 
>way
> > to attach to an existing session.
> >
> > i know kde allows for setting this up easily, but that requires me 
>sitting
> > there at the machine (and in all honesty i have no idea if it will work
> > under gnome or not because im not sure how they implimented it)
> >
> > any help on this would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > Casey
> >
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