Thursday, February 03, 2005
Loading VNC onto a remote Macintosh running SSH
- download OSXvnc
- Move diskimage to remote computer
- ssh to remote comptuer, go into Applications folder, mount dmg file, go into .app folder
- start the binary over ssh. The localhost option sets it up to sshtunnel.
- establish ssh tunnel from local computer
- download OSXvnc
- Move diskimage to remote computer
scp OSXvnc1.5.dmg admin@thatmac.fooschool.edu:~/Applications/
- ssh to remote comptuer, go into Applications folder, mount dmg file, go into .app folder
open OSXvnc1.5.dmg
cd OSXvnc.app
- start the binary over ssh. The localhost option sets it up to sshtunnel.
./OSXvnc-server -localhost
- establish ssh tunnel from local computer
- start local vnc client to localhost
ssh -l admin -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 thatmac.fooschool.edu
vncviewer 127.0.0.1SSH will tunnel the vnc client to the service you started on the remote comptuer. It should pop up. It'll be slow. But it works.
