On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Nathan Dunfield <nat...@dunfield.info>wrote:
> > Yes, I got confused between Nathans. Sorry. And many thanks again for > the > > directions!! > > You're welcome. It's often annoying how hard it is to do certain > administrative tasks on OS X from the command line. Even for just > creating an account, it's no harder to do a full screenshare via ssh > and VNC and then just use System Preferences to add the account as > always. Indeed, here's how to do anything you want on the server > remotely from another OS X machine (though the local machine isn't > really important here). > > On the server, download "VineServer3.0.dmg" from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/files/ Then do > > remote% sudo open VineServer3.0.dmg > remote% cp -R /Volumes/Vine\ Server/Vine\ Server.app /Applications > > On the local machine, install a VNC client (I used Chicken of the VNC > from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ ) and then start an ssh > tunnel > > local% ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 u...@remote.domain.com > remote% sudo /Applications/Vine\ Server.app/Contents/Resources/OSXvnc- > server -localhost -rfbnoauth > > and now just start the VNC client and point it at localhost:5900 (For > COVNC this is the default connection it offers). Now the remote > screen appears on your local one and you can do whatever you need to Thanks. This worked perfectly! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
