Having used vnc for probably 20 years - windoze to windoze, windoze to Linux, Linux to windoze and Linux to Linux I FINALLY decided to make a connection via an ssh tunel
My configuration consists of:
machine t25 running vncserver on Ubuntu Mate 18.04
machine t20 running vinagre on CentOS 7
I normally connect from t20 to the vncserver on t25 using the address t25:1 protocol VNC from vinagre. Works great.
I created an ssh tunnel between the machines by executing the following on t20
Code:
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 -N -f -l ken t25
I then connected from t20 to the vncserver on t25 from vinagre with the addrress 127.0.0.1:5901 and again the protocol VNC. Works great. I closed vnc-server on the firewall on t25 and went through the drill again to verify that I am connecting through the ssh tunnel and cannot connect outside the tunnel. Wow, I can not believe it was so easy
This brings me to my question... vinagre shows a protocol choice for SSH. Can someone please tell me what this is for? I did not need to use it to connect through my ssh tunnel. The help in vinagre shows very little. man vinagre deals with command line use and refers me to the "Vinagre help manual" which I am unable to locate. Gnome help tells me
Quote:
Some protocols allow you to see all available computers on your local network by clicking the Find button. This buttons will not be displayed if you do not have Avahi support.
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I am not using Avahi so I do not believe this is relevant.
TIA,
Ken