Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:06:22 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That may be it: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:24:92:E1:91 > > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:15

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That may be it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:24:92:E1:91 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:294 e

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:08 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I don't know what to make of it. > > > What about the rest of my message below? (copied again) > > > Googling about, > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:08 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I don't know what to make of it. > > > What about the rest of my message below? (copied again) Ooops, missed that. I'll try it. > > > Googling about,

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I don't know what to make of it. What about the rest of my message below? (copied again) Googling about, > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=104336969724537&w=2 > looks closest to your situation - do you have the loop

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:40:03 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fooling around with that now. The man page says that output is sent > > to the system log (which I presume is /var/log/syslog). It doesn't > > seem to be doin

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fooling around with that now. The man page says that output is sent to the system log (which I presume is /var/log/syslog). It doesn't seem to be doing that. However, it runs through lots of ports (Not sure where it starts since I can't scrol

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:54:30 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > you can also get around it with: > > AllowTcpForwarding yes<-- I assume the default of this is no as > > well. > > > I forgot about that one but th

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:36:57 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry to jump in here late, I haven;t looked at the whole thread. > > Have you already checked your sshd_config on the machine you are > ssh'ing to > > You need to have: > X11Forwarding yes <-- default is NO > X11UseLocalhos

Re: Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you can also get around it with: AllowTcpForwarding yes<-- I assume the default of this is no as well. I forgot about that one but the manual says that the default is "yes". You still need to enable the X11Forwarding which is a sep

Re: Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread mxcarr
Sorry to jump in here late, I haven;t looked at the whole thread. Have you already checked your sshd_config on the machine you are ssh'ing to You need to have: X11Forwarding yes <-- default is NO X11UseLocalhost yes you can also get around it with: AllowTcpForwarding yes<-- I assu

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:39:02 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On the remote Xubuntu ("Misty"), logged in with ssh -X: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo netstat -tlp > > Active Internet connections (only servers) > > Proto Re

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the remote Xubuntu ("Misty"), logged in with ssh -X: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo netstat -tlp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:27:04 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The frustrating thing is that I can't find any significant > > difference between the Xubuntu configuration files and the Ubuntu > > ones that behave perfectl

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The frustrating thing is that I can't find any significant difference between the Xubuntu configuration files and the Ubuntu ones that behave perfectly. Let's try to look at the situation from a different angle - login to the remote system

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:33 +1100 Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as > > > root) netstat -ntlp for me. > > > > >

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:52:21 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as > > root) netstat -ntlp for me. > > > > I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP sock

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Zhasper
On 30/01/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) > netstat -ntlp for me. > > I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It > certainly isn't on my ubun

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:31:21 +1100 Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) > netstat -ntlp for me. > > I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It > certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. > > If you look in /

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) netstat -ntlp for me. I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. The X server on the remote machine shouldn't hav

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Zhasper
On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) netstat -ntlp for me. I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. If you look in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, you'll find: # I

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Zhasper
On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) netstat -ntlp for me. I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. If you look in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, you'll find: # If true this will basically append -nolisten tcp t

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:58:56 +1100 Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan L Tyree wrote: > > It fails with all programs. > > > > The problem is that the DISPLAY variable is not getting set. After > > logging into both machines with ssh -X machine_name > > > > -

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Hardy
Alan L Tyree wrote: It fails with all programs. The problem is that the DISPLAY variable is not getting set. After logging into both machines with ssh -X machine_name - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 ** Ubuntu machine where everything work

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:04:38 +1100 Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here is help I recieved with this > Ken > > Ken, > > I think that I have found the problem with your display. When you > logged in as root you lost the authorization for the display. The > long version can be found on thi

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Ken Wilson
here is help I recieved with this Ken Ken, I think that I have found the problem with your display. When you logged in as root you lost the authorization for the display. The long version can be found on this page... https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/l-lpic1110/section4.htm

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:42:00 +1100 Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28/01/2007, at 5:27 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:54:52 +1100 > > Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > >> > >>> I have been t

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28/01/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm. I can't do a simple X forwarding to the Xubuntu machine. See sshd_config(5) about X11Forwarding. At least on Debian it says the following: X11Forwarding Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The argument must be "yes" or "n

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Alan, does this help... http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sslvnc.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02SSLVNC Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 28/01/2007, at 5:27 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:54:52 +1100 Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to connect. There are two different machines that I am tryi

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:54:52 +1100 Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to > > connect. There are two different machines that I am trying to > > connect to, one Ubuntu and on

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to connect. There are two different machines that I am trying to connect to, one Ubuntu and one is an Apple iBook running Xubuntu. 1 I have no problem with either machine NOT using ssh

[SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-27 Thread Alan L Tyree
I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to connect. There are two different machines that I am trying to connect to, one Ubuntu and one is an Apple iBook running Xubuntu. 1 I have no problem with either machine NOT using ssh 2 using ssh: ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 remote_nam