Re: [tlug] Accessing a program running on a different computer

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Daniel,


On 01/02/11 23:47, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On 2011-01-30 at 22:49:54, Raymond Wan wrote:
> > Suppose you're on Machine A and you are accessing Machine B
> > remotely.  You start Process X running on Machine B.  If X
> > is a GUI-based program (for example firefox), I don't
> > believe there is a way to see it from Machine A.
>
> I have to do that moderately often. Here's what to do from the SSH
> session:
>
>      (x11vnc -display :0 -localhost -usepw&)
>      sleep 1
>      xtightvncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd localhost:0
>
> Those are part of a larger shell script i have which lets me do all
> sorts of VNC stuff. To use just those lines as they are, you'll have to
> set up a password file--see vncpasswd(1).


Thank you for this!  I will give it a try.  I actually have 
a gateway machine (Machine X) between the two, but it seems 
like there is a -via option that uses ssh port forwarding. 
So maybe it will succeed...

Thanks!

Ray