On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 > > Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > [...] > > > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from > > > the server (also forwarding X) to run individual X based > > > applications so that the display is on the laptop, but I can't > > > figure out how to get it to operate so the whole desktop gets > > > displayed there. Is it possible? and if so How > > > > Not directly responsive, I know, but you could certainly run a VNC > > server on the workstation (serving up a complete desktop) and then ssh > > to your firewall (with X forwarding) and run VNCviewer there to > > display your complete desktop session back to your laptop. A little > > indirect, but it does work. > > > > HTH, > > I second the proposal that a solution based on VNC is your best bet. It > should even be possible to run a VNC viewer on your laptop and connect > to your workstation in one hop: > > ssh -L 5901:workstation:5901 server > > Then you would connect the viewer to localhost:1. This would remove the > need for X forwarding, and is usually faster too.
I think there is some subtlety here that I don't fully understand. I tried what I thought was the right software (Debian package vnc4server) and added the module vnc into my xorg,conf file. I then downloaded a windows viewer from realvnc,com and tried to connect. It ended up locking up my x configuration on the workstation (where the vnc server was running) such that I had to reboot. It did that twice before I gave up -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
