In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.
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putty disconects after a cople of minutes when using it to make a X tunnel for kvm VNC console
I am using putty from a windows desktop to make an X tunnel so I can access my KVM VMs VNC console (I am using TightVNC) but the putty connection dies after a few minutes. I have other ssh connections from my windows box (actually using MINGW64…
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How can I setup a dual SSH tunnel so that two machines A and B behind firewalls ssh into a central sever such that A can VNC into B?
I need to connect via VNC from my machine A to another machine belonging to my friend B.
Both of us have no way to open incoming ports - ISPs do not allow tunneling unless you buy a static IP based business plan.
Both are linux systems BTW
We have a…
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How to install x11vnc in offline mode?
I am trying to install x11vnc on linux machine which doesn't have internet on it.So i won't able to install using sudo apt-get install x11vnc command. Can someone please help me install x11vnc with all the required dependencies using offline mode?
I…
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Yosuva Arulanthu
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What security weekness(es) does my vino VNC server have?
I installed vino VNC server on Lubuntu 18.04, and configured and started my vino server according to https://askubuntu.com/a/530196/1471:
$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ gsettings set org.gnome.Vino enabled true # although fails, it doesn't matter
No such…
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Which command is used to establish ssh tunnel in windows?
I wish to establish a ssh tunnel between windows server and client without port forwarding.
I know the command to use to establish tunnel with port forwarding, But i only have a Server and a client so cannot use forwarding.
ssh user@serverip -L…
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Running LVM using VNC Viewer on CentOS 6
Need to run Logical Volume Manager on my CentOS 6 vm (Created by VMWare) using VNC Viewer but when I double click on it, nothing happens.
What I did is to go to System > Administrator > Logical Volume Manager
Am I missing something ? Is there any…
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Have distributed hosts auto-connect to central jump box for reverse ssh and vnc sessions
We're going to deploy info screens in various places. They have a browser running and pull the info via HTTP. To reconfigure them, it would be useful if they connected to a central host from where we could open SSH or VNC sessions. They are not…
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Cannot Access remote CentOS machine using VNC
I am trying to connect to a remote CentOs machine through VNC to get a graphical display.
I have followed the steps mentioned in https://www.howtoforge.com/vnc-server-installation-centos-6.5 to install and configure VNC server on my CentOS…
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KVM unix socket file permission for VNC
I'm using kvm-qemu/libvirtd for a bunch of kvms. I'm using vnc for the graphical interface. By default, it listens on a tcp socket. I want to have it listen on a unix socket instead. Looking at some docs (http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html) I…
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Connecting to KVM VM via VNC
I just installed KVM on centos 6.5 and after I created a VM I don't know how to access via VNC.
I used this command to create the VM:
virt-install --name=guest_name --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=2 --ram=5120 --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel5 --hvm…
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Start vino-server (VNC) before login on Linux CentOS
I'm using the default vino-server package to access my CentOS 6 workstation via VNC.
It works ok, but only AFTER I locally login on the workstation. I need to have vino-server start BEFORE the login, right at the Gnome login screen where I choose…
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How to forward vnc for multiple hops
I have 2 machines Intrim and Remote. I have to go through Intrim to get to Remote. Normally I just do this:
ssh -X Intrim #now I'm in Intrim
ssh -X Remote
And I just open up things with the forwarded x. But vnc is way better. How can I do this with…
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Set up network to provide remote assistance
Currently:
On location A I've got 7 computers running Windows XP Professional SP3. I've got 2 of these running a free version of Teamviewer. The rest have nothing and I can't access them from location B.
On location B I've got a notebook running…
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Maria Ines Parnisari
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RDP to remote Natted machines
I currently have a situation where I have around 20 machines across 7 or so locations where each of those locations is firewalled. We need to be able to pull up a remote desktop on these machines (windows XP and 7 machines).
Currently we are using…
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tightvnc, belkin router, port 4900 open, still cant connect
My computer on a private LAN, which connects to a router, which is connected to the internet.
Their computer is behind a belkin wireless router. I have turned the firewall and AV off for the computer that I am trying to connect to. I have also gone…
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