Vinagre: VNC client for GNOME

  1. Bug #764632
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 764632

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YvesDelannoy (yves-delannoy) wrote :

A workaround for me was to create manually the ssh tunnel from a terminal : assuming tou can issue a simple ssh to your router with

  ssh <LoginName>@<PublicNameOfRouter>

the tunnel is started with

  ssh -L 9999:<VpnserverAsSeenFromRouter>:5901 <LoginName>@<PublicNameOfRouter>

assuming you've started the vpnserver on screen :1 (for screen :2 use 5902 in place of 5901 and so on)

The tricky thing is then to ask vinagre to connect to localhost:9999 (yes, localhost, not your remote router)... and it works!

NB the ssh tunnel is stopped by disconnecting from the ssh that started it.