remotely controlling your computer

Thu Dec 15 16:23:09 MST 2011

I open the server:

bmike1 at Michaels-PC:/$ vncserver
Found /usr/share/tightvnc-java for http connections.
New 'X' desktop is Michaels-PC:1
Starting applications specified in /home/bmike1/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/bmike1/.vnc/Michaels-PC:1.log
bmike1 at Michaels-PC:/$

and I'm pretty sure that "New 'X' desktop is Michaels-PC:1" is telling me
that the new virtual desktop  is called Michaels-PC and that the display
assigned to it is 1.
 That got the little gears in my head working! let's try:
     xtightvncviewer Michaels-PC:1
nope.... not that. Lets try the IP address followed by Michaels-PC....
after much fighting with it for a bit I found that the correct command is
xtightvncviewer <IP>:1. .....
sort of.
problems:
(both computers
-I can see the desktop from the other computer but none of the currently
open windows. The icons are visible though.
-I just attempted to run an executable but it wouldn't run. I figured it
was because
 my permissions were wrong so I "chmod -R 770 <home directory> but that
didn't
 help any.
-The vncviewer window is too small (ie I can't see the entire desktop). I
messed
 with the geometry option on vncserver but that doesn't do anything. Only
skews
 the image a little.
(looking at the vncviewer on Ubuntu with the Mints computer desktop being
virtual)
-None of the open windows on the other computer are visible
-I just opened a text document on the other computer and before it opened
all of
 the icons disappeared.
-I closed and reopened vncviewer to get the icons back for further testing
but the
 icons did not reappear.
(looking at the vncviewer on the Mint computer with Ubuntus desktop being
virtual)
-no other problems than what is universal

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> okay.... it is installed. Any pointers on how to use it? I'm going to bed
> now! God night.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> well, I was given a webpage and so I went there. there was a bebian
>> download page and I went there. There was a deb file for download so I did
>> that. I didn't think of trying apt. I just tried it and it is not in my
>> repositories. Hey look.... it is on sourceforge! OOPS! That's just the
>> source code. More google....
>>
>> I found a page that said I had to enable the universe repositories but I
>> discovered they were already enabled (I found that page had to do with
>> Warty). Back to google.....
>>
>> It is magical.... it lead me to
>> http://linuxappfinder.com/package/tightvncserver which did it. At least
>> it did it for the laptop. The ubuntu machine is taking forever with it's
>> 'Ubuntu Software Center'!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you always do things the hard way.  No need to compile from
>>> source.  In Linux one of the forms will be in your repository.  For
>>> Windows, download the installer.
>>>
>>> But yes, the source will be quite small to download if you really want
>>> it.  I would have no idea where to find the makefile and such as I have
>>> never had any reason to be concerned about the source.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion to use tightvnc. I've heard of them. I
>>>> downloaded the source and I need to ask...... where is the makefile and all
>>>> the stuff needed to compile it? You know... I'm uneasy about the download.
>>>> It only ran for  a second or so. Does that sound right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> VNC is pretty handy for such things though you may need to set up VPN
>>>>> and SSH to do it securely from the internet (read the tutorials).  It also
>>>>> has the benefit of being cross platform and the [dis-]advantage (depending
>>>>> on who you ask) of being primarily GUI based.  There are several flavors of
>>>>> VNC:
>>>>>   http://www.realvnc.com/
>>>>>   http://www.tightvnc.com/
>>>>>   http://www.uvnc.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> At SLUG, we mostly use TightVNC but we are also using it within a LAN
>>>>> most of the time.  BTW, it is really handy for doing classes and meetings
>>>>> where people can look at there own screens to see what the
>>>>> instructor/lecturer is doing.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Benjamin Francom <bfrancom at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <
>>>>>> plug-discuss-request at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Message: 4
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:49:13 -0700
>>>>>>> From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list <PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: remotely controlling your computer
>>>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>>>        <
>>>>>>> CAFRvunKpymA0FXt9jEMnRG52sqyvrSPZwB0YuAJXOQYpNurVyA at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> one more thing..... I want to be able to auto accept the request to
>>>>>>> access
>>>>>>> the computer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > What are your favorite methods of remotely accessing your
>>>>>>> computer? I
>>>>>>> > found krfb and krdc but I only don't want to have to start two
>>>>>>> programs
>>>>>>> > every time I want to do this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If console access, SSH.
>>>>>> For GUI:
>>>>>> It used to be FreeNX, but the project seems to have not been updated
>>>>>> in a long time.  So far, it looks like the replacment is neatx which is
>>>>>> similar...using same protocols/compression (I believe).
>>>>>> The NX protocol is nice/fast, and secure (uses SSH)...
>>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/neatx/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind of related to the topic is a 'remote session manager'
>>>>>> ...Currently use PAC (Perl Auto Connector) Manager.  It lets you save your
>>>>>> preferences/settings for various sessions (ssh,rdp,etc).
>>>>>> It's like vRD on Windows.
>>>>>>
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