Re: xfree vnc and the local console

[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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