Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-15 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
Thanks Geoff looks like it might have been a geat tip. I uninstalled all of compiz on the main client pc and also set the ssvnc viewer to autoseek the correct display on each connection and now able to succesfully connect to all w/s simultaneously. I assign each one's terminal session and x dis

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-15 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
Thanks again Fred, I finally managed to get a connection by setting the initial connect profile to autoseek the display rather than specifying one as described in Karl's web link u provided. On 12/11/12 18:21, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:09 44, VE4PER/ Andy wrote: > >> Has an

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread Geoff Barkman
You might have disable compiz. With that enabled vnc is pretty hopeless. Cheers Geoff sent by geoff on his android phone On Nov 15, 2012 6:14 PM, "VE4PER/ Andy" wrote: > One thing I have discovered with all this excercise is that when the 64 > bit vers of studio 12.04LTS locks up and freezes on

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
One thing I have discovered with all this excercise is that when the 64 bit vers of studio 12.04LTS locks up and freezes on the local machine I can avoid the freeze ups by logging on and running the 64 bit machines via the remote x sessions; have yet to be able to duplicate the freeze ups this

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
Thanks Geoff I will give that a look also. I have managed to get ssh connection to work with a full desktop session for any one of the three different desktops, xfce, gnome, and kde however the presentation on the remote client machine is pretty confusing as it doesn't create a separate window

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
The sharing is not available on the menus of the version I am using. I have been focused on trying to get some of the other possibilities to work rather than trying see if I am missing some modules to allow sharing. Some require the heavier desktops to work and I am trying to stay light for reso

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread Geoff Barkman
On Ubuntu there is also GSTM - Gnome ssh tunnel manager that you can graphically do the ssh tunneling and save settings so you don't have to type in long commands in the terminal. Its available by the Ubuntu package manager or you can download directly from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projec

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-14 Thread Florent Peyraud
Hello Le 12/11/12 18:52, Fernando Della Torre a écrit : Hi there! If you're under ubuntu you can enable the remote desktop (VNC kind) and use it through a SSH tunnel. We in Tryphon are almost using this method, but to avoid having to tune our customer's internet modem/router in order to open t

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
On 12/11/12 18:21, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:09 44, VE4PER/ Andy wrote: > >> Has anyone used ssh connection to actually view a remote desktop as a >> way to see and trblshoot w/s problems? > Not by itself, but in conjunction with an X server it can be done. For > operation over

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:09 44, VE4PER/ Andy wrote: > Has anyone used ssh connection to actually view a remote desktop as a > way to see and trblshoot w/s problems? Not by itself, but in conjunction with an X server it can be done. For operation over distant links where limited bandwidth is an i

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread Cowboy
On Monday 12 November 2012 12:34:09 pm Andy Sayler wrote: > When you use SSH with X > server forwarding (the -X option), the GUIs are actually being generated > on your local machine, not on the remote machine at all (in > fact, the remote machine need not even have X installed). Almost. The X

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread Fernando Della Torre
Hi there! If you're under ubuntu you can enable the remote desktop (VNC kind) and use it through a SSH tunnel. Atenciosamente, ** ** *Fernando Della Torre* Tecnologia da Informação (: +55 16 8137-1240 (: +55 16 9137-2886 *: *f...@vdit.com.br* V.D.I.T. Soluções em Virtualizaçã

Re: [RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread Andy Sayler
Hi Andy, To the best of my knowledge SSH is not designed for "Screen Sharing", and provides no way to do it. When you connect to a remote machine via SSH, you are creating a new user session, completely separate from any local user sessions (or other remote session) already running on the remote

[RDD] using ssh as desktop helpdesk in trblshooting RD problems

2012-11-12 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
Has anyone used ssh connection to actually view a remote desktop as a way to see and trblshoot w/s problems? I use ssh -a -X userid@IPaddress with server running in the w/s allowing login. It gives me terminal access in real time and allows me to run new instances of window/GUI pgms remotely, h