[YLUG] ssh to York

[Chunky Kibbles]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >
> >Commonly known as vnc.

> I also tried VCN in the past but gave up because it was messing up the
> routing. My machine was not recognized anymore on the internet.

Use ssh port forwarding to contact it. eg:

1) ssh to server, run vncserver command.

2) Look at output. Find screen number
To get port, add screen number to 5900

3) ssh -L54000:localhost:{port number} {server}
Leave that ssh session open

4) vncviewer localhost::54000

Have fun,
Gary (-;