Comments on: Use VNC through SSH http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ben Browning http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 Ben Browning Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:15:44 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/#comment-1664 You can also do this in your ~/.ssh/config, like:

Host some.host.name
LocalForward 5901 192.168.42.10:5901
User yourusername

That way it works automagically.

Of course, my config block for my home machine also enables a funny SSH port and X11 forwarding… :)

~Ben

]]> By: Luis http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Luis Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:59:37 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/#comment-1640 or use FreeNX; it also is a good tool for remote desktop functionality that is free.

]]> By: Luis http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-1639 Luis Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:59:04 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/use-vnc-through-ssh/#comment-1639 you can also do

ssh -X user@host vncviwer localhost:0

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