tighvnc on ubuntu 9.10
I need to get the code to run a tightvnc client form a ubuntu system to a red hat one.

I wen tot th epackage manager but dont see the pacakge.
xtightvncviewer looked for this and tight vnc etc. Nothing comes up...

I tried to download and compile it but it would not compile for some reason.

How do i get a precompiled package for ubuntu 9.10
Any help is appreciated.

if you're going to say you tried to compile it, why not say what happened? There are plenty of vnc viewer available through apt-get under ubuntu, why do you need a specific one?

Have I done my VNC rant to you? If not... VNC is awful, please please don't use it. http://nomachine.org http://www.nomachine.com/select-pack...?os=linux&id=1

i want tightvnc over ssh thats not the same as vnc. I need a secure session. Not often but still I need one.

Read about SSH Tunnelling

you are missing my point. I know how to do this. I can use a windows client. I just need to get the Ubuntu client to work.

tightvnc is just a client, nothing interesting about it. If you need ssh tunneling you can always just set this up with any ssh client.

mine you, nx always tunnels over SSH in a *MUCH* more secure way than VNC

I know tightvnc uses the ssh connection to tunnel. What other client does that that I could use that is native to Linux/Ubuntu repos etc?


May be i am not asking the right question here.

I need a secure VNC solution over SSH.
I have a system that i remote into and need a secure gui desktop on occasion.

I use tightvnc over putty at work in windows. Works fine.
I have putty on my Ubuntu system and that works. What I am missing is the secure VNC piece of the puzzle

there is no "secure VNC" piece. secure = ssh, vnc = vnc. The two parts have nothing in common. VNC has no idea whatsoever that it's being tunnelled over ssh, it just get's told to connect to localhost instead of the remote server. absolutely any vnc client will behave in exactly the same way. and certainly no need for putty on linux, just use standard ssh - "ssh user@server -L 5901:127.1:5901" for example.

So let me see if I understand this now...

VNC will try to communicate over ANY ssh session?
I do not want to open port 5901 02 ... etc on my router just port 22.

In the windows version you set up a putty session and go to the tunneling setting and set things up there.

This is the document I used for that. I need something similar to that but for Linux/Ubuntu

http://home.chattanooga.net/~john/Pu...ty-tunnel.html

Oh I use putty because the native ssh session takes longer to connect than a putty session does. I usually just ssh over for normal stuff but putty over for the VNC stuff.

No, VNC does not *try* to use SSH, VNC has NO IDEA it's using an ssh session to reach the end destination. As far as it knows it's connected to a VNC server on your own machine. I think, to be honest, you think that this is much more complicated than it really is. PuTTY can create SSH tunnels, OpenSSH client can open SSH tunnels etc. VNC is doing nothing even vaguely intelligent in the tunnelling solution at all.

[and nx is still *much* better]

Thank you Chris.

I will give it a try over normal ssh and see if it works.

I thought putty was doing something special with the tunneling based on how i set it up for xp.

I think tighvnc is also smaller and faster then VNC proper based on what i read on their site.

With that said what VNC client is similar to normal or tightvnc is in Ubuntu that I should use. I see several in the list of sw.

tightvnc does compression, which the default client doesn't, AFAIK. However SSH is also compressed, so you're unlikely to see a benefit between the two on network traffic, as everything is squished anyway.

ok so waht client should I load from the Ubuntu application manager?

I'm not aware exactly what clients are directly available, an "aptitude search vnc" will give plenty of options I expect though.

ya i tried an app search but the ones i tried did not work the way i expected it. so i was hoping someone knew a the name of an app that did work.

i do see gtkvnc viewer and remote desktop viewer, some others but they dont work the way i need them to