Set “Remote desktop” host server remotely

Question

When you want to set a server to accept "Remote Desktop" connections, you do: System \ Preferences \ Remote Desktop

The thing is I just have a ssh connection to the server for now. How do you set it using only the command line ?

Answer 1

This will work with a normal installation:

ssh to your remote machine, with X forwarding turned on

ssh -X servername 

Then run vino-preferences

Alternatively, set the gconf keys from the command line with gconftool :

gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true

You can see the other remote_access keys with this command :

gconftool-2 -a /desktop/gnome/remote_access

If your server isn't started remotely, start it with

/usr/lib/vino/vino-server

There's more info in this answer.

Answer 2

Install x11vnc on the remote computer and then punch something like this in on your local computer:

ssh user@host -L 5900:localhost:5900 "x11vnc -display :0 -noxdamage"

Then connect to localhost on your local computer with your VNC client. The local port 5900 will be tunnelled over the SSH connection (which is now running x11vnc).

Simple!

Answer 3

Am assuming then that you have the openssh server installed in the server. So from a client do this:

ssh USER@SERVER. For example: ssh cyrex@askubuntu.com This is the simple way of ssh to connect.

The user HAS to have ssh permission in the server and must also be available in the server of course.