Re: vinagre

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 17:32, Chris Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if vinagre can use used to access a remote desktop outside
> from the LAN - eg: from the interweb?
> I use it to access machines within my LAN and it works great - just would
> like to be able to do the same thing from outside..

I would recommend doing it through an SSH tunnel for both encryption
and more secure authentication.  SSH's 'LocalForward' option will
allow you to forward an arbitrary port on your local machine to a port
(such as 5900, 5901, etc) on the LAN of the destination SSH server...
and then you just use the VNC client to connect to that local port.
(In particular, if you use a router with DD-WRT/OpenWRT/etc with a
small SSH server you can SSH to that and then make secure VNC
connections to a number of machines on the LAN rather than relying on
specific port forwarding rules.)