Difference between revisions of "How to connect to a d2n VNC Session"
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Revision as of 19:14, 25 June 2015
1) Build a tunnel from your machine through to d2n.jlab.org (where the vncserver is running)
Open a terminal window on your local computer and run: % ssh <your-jlab-username>@login.jlab.org -L 2222:d2n.jlab.org:22
Note: If your vncserver is running on a different machine, then replace 'd2n' with that computer’s name (ie. 'jlabl4')
2) Now tunnel the vnc port through the tunnel from (1):
Open another terminal window on your local computer and run: % ssh <your-jlab-username>@localhost -p 2222 -L 5907:localhost:5907
3) Now run your vncviewer and connect to the vnc session
Open another terminal window on your local computer and run: % vncviewer -Shared :7 -!-> Make sure you include the '-Shared' option or you kick everyone else off. ---> Get the session password from the person running the meeting.
Mac OS X VNC client:
'Chicken of the VNC' works well. It can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ ---> First set up the tunnel chain as above in some terminal windows. In the VNC login window: Host = localhost Display/Port = 7 -!-> Be sure to check the 'Shared Display' box
RealVNC client (https://www.realvnc.com/download/)
Connect to: localhost:7, or 127.0.0.1:7
Windows:
This can be done by using a couple of instances of PuTTY to handle the ssh tunnels and then using RealVNC or UltraVNC to connect to the VNC session. - I can write a walkthrough for this if there is demand but I'd prefer everyone just switch to using a fully functional OS like linux. (I kid, I kid... ;-)