Remote server
Forum: Networking
Topic: Remote server
started by: mespork
Posted by mespork on April 27 2006,16:25
I am using DSL on an old computer at home to connect to while I am at work. VNC works great for this. However, I have a brother in china that also connects to the computer so he can browse the internet without being filtered. I was wondering if any one has had any luck doing multiple sessions with vnc. I have been thinking about using freenx but I don't have any experience with it. Thanks in adavnce.
Posted by doobit on April 27 2006,16:44
Your brother in China might want to try TOR and Privoxy together. They completely hide your IP addresses. I have no experience with VNC, however it can't be much quicker than TOR with Privoxy.
Posted by pr0f3550r on April 27 2006,17:18
If your brother in China has any version of Unix + Xwindows, you could run a ssh server on dsl and let him connect trough an ssh client.If he has Windows there are some excellent Xservers ( that actually means X-enabled ssh clients) built in Java, you can search on Google.
Posted by 300c_pilot on April 28 2006,05:57
VNC, as far as I can tell does not support multiple sessions on one host. The linux terminal server does, as well as freenx. They are also a thin client so they are much faster then VNC.Smooth flights...
Posted by Zucca on June 07 2006,04:43
I have two vnc server progs running. One for me and one for my friend. 
Somehow java support (accessing via web browser) seems to be disabled...I can explain later how I managed to do that...
Posted by Zucca on June 08 2006,03:34
This is how I did when I created a vnc access for my friend:- I created a new user.
edit .bash_profile for that user and add these lines:
| Code Sample |
DISPLAY=12 export DISPLAY=12 # I'm not sure wich one works correctly but adding both worked. =D vncserver :12 -geometry 800x600 & logout # you can choose geometry as you like |
Ok. This needs you to set up sshd server too.
What it simply does... it just starts Xvnc server on screen 12 and logs user out. Of course you could do same with script to have this user able to use normal ssh connection to your server too.
To log into it use port 5912.
Password is same you chosed when added that new user.
You also need some lines to /home/<user_login>/.vnc/xstartup:
| Code Sample |
| torsmo 2>/dev/null & iconsnap.lua &>/dev/null & xtdesk &>/dev/null & swallow.sh docked & exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null |
xstartup file just contains lines to execute when your vnc server starts.
Note do not add startx command here. I just messes everything up.
If anyone could tell me how to have it start a vnc server like this without having user to first log in via ssh... ?
Some nice lines to /opt/bootlocal.sh?