Jim Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
How do I set up this environment variable on my notebook. Would I modify my .bash_profile file, and is the format of the added line:\ VNC_VIA_CMD=/usr/bin/ssh -p 7722 -f -L "$L":"$H":"$R" "$G" sleep 20
You could actually do this a little bit easier, by defining a user ssh config file in ~/.ssh
You could do something similar to:
Host myvncgateway HostName server.com User backupuser #default username Port 2222 # Use this port instead of 22.
neat, but...
This simplified my ssh commands, not having to include the -p ____
But I could not get vncviewer working. For the command:
vncviewer gate.foo.com:5902 -via gate.foo.com
I get:
VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Mar 14 2007 22:51:02 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. me@gate.foo.com's password:
Tue Jul 15 07:54:27 2008 CConn: connected to host localhost port 5599 channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused main: End of stream
Where did port 5599 come from?
So I kind of gave up, I set up a SSH port forwarding and ran through that.
All this to make a change to my firewall rules. My firewall would not accept an external admin connection, so I had to get an internal Firefox client running on this system. Hop, Hop, Hop....