HOWTO: Enable and control the gnome VNC vino-server from an SSH connection
NOTE: At long last here's the updated method. This was tested between two Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick hosts. Thanks to all the contributors to this thread, especially the posts by frafu and InkyDinky
user@localbox:~$ ssh -Y user@remotebox user@remotebox:~$ vino-preferences # check settings and hit close button user@remotebox:~$ sudo -s root@remotebox:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0 root@remotebox:~# xhost + root@remotebox:~# /usr/lib/vino/vino-server & # to start the vino server root@remotebox:~# netstat -nl | grep 5900 # check to make sure vino server is listening on port 5900 exit or CTRL-D twice to close SSH session to remotebox
user@localbox:~$ ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@remotebox # establish a new SSH connection to remotebox w/forwarded VNC port # launch Remote Desktop Viewer (vinagre) under Applications => Internet and connect to localhost
