VNC tunneling -- so close!
 

Hey,
So I've spent most of the day trying to figure out how to get my home linux desktop to show up on the computer at my school. I'm behind a router and a firewall. I control the router, not the firewall. Anyway, I learned about ssh tunneling and am doing that. I run into a problem when, after I do the tunneling, and start the viewer (on a linux box for now, not going to try to mess with windows till a little later), it looks like it starts up, but nothing happens.

my terminal looks like this:
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dimitra:~/src/vnc-4.0-x86_linux % ./vncviewer -PreferredEncoding hextile localhost:2

VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Jun 14 2004 11:52:10
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Tue Sep 14 17:47:33 2004
CConn: connected to host localhost port 5902
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.130
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
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I've done it withough the PreferredEncoding option as well. Basically, it looks like its starting up, but no window opens, nothing happens. I believe the school machine is a RH9, my box at home is Suse9.1.

maybe it is working, just on a different display?

mak

well, I looked at the .vnc log and found that the RFB protocol was also mentioned there as an issue, but the log said it was a minor discrepancy. gave me the idea to upgrade my server to a more recent release. that solved the problem. Now on to making a windows client work. I've seen putty as a way to tunnel. Guess I'll try that tomorrow.

mak