[Cialug] gemsvnc, x11vnc

[Kendall Bailey]

Yes, definitely.  I don't trust him to admin the thing, so it's
completely firewalled and NAT'd.  I have him ssh to my box and then I
connect back to him via a tunnel.  I named the ssh launching script on
his machine 'backdoor' so it was clear that he was opening his box up
to be controlled.

Kendall

On 11/4/05, David Champion <dave at visionary.com> wrote:
> ... and don't forget to ssh tunnel your vnc connections, kids.
>
> -dc
>
> Jerry Weida wrote:
> > You would probably want to look at x0vnc. It allows VNC to bind to display 0
> > (the root display/console). According to the Debian packages it is provided
> > by the vnc4server package.
> >
> > On 11/4/05, Kendall Bailey <krbailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Anyone have experience with these? I have a brother in St. Louis for
> >>whom I've install Ubuntu 5.04 some time back. He needs occasional
> >>config help. I can run tightvncserver and connect, so as to get
> >>access to graphical apps on the box, but it would be even better if I
> >>can see/manipulate his root display. I don't find gemsvnc by doing
> >>"apt-cache search" on my Debian box, but x11vnc is there. Is gemsvnc
> >>so much better I should get the source and compile it? Or is x11vnc
> >>good enough for remote control over broadband?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Kendall
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