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Apocalypse_666

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 18

TightVNC between Arch - XP and Arch - Ubuntu

Hi everyone!
I'm trying to set up a system, but I'm having a few problems. Right now, I have a dual-boot pc with Windows XP and Ubuntu. Just recently I got an older system, on which I've installed Arch. Now, what I'd like is to be able to log in on either Ubuntu or XP and then be able to switch to the Arch PC. I realize that a simple KVM-switch would be the easiest, but I'm a cheapskate and I'd also like to learn a little bit more about Linux/Networks in the progress, so I'm trying to install TightVNC. Right now I have both the server and the viewer installed on all OS's, but I can't seem to connect... I'm not very experienced with Linux to be honest so I don't know what kind of info you need to help me along, but please tell me so I can feed it back to you. I'd really really appreciate it if someone could help me with this, or point me in the right direction. (I have searched for guides and stuff but I couldn't find anything that could help me...)
MAYOR THANKS in advance!

Linus

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: TightVNC between Arch - XP and Arch - Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNCOverSSH

may be a start

check Arch wiki for guides...

I have managed to get ssh/sshfs working between laptop and Desktop but so far no luck with vnc so I will be interested in how you get on

Will help out if I can

MrG

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Apocalypse_666

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 18

Re: TightVNC between Arch - XP and Arch - Ubuntu

This looks pretty promising! I'll try it out as soon as I can! Thanks dude

Apocalypse_666

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 18

Re: TightVNC between Arch - XP and Arch - Ubuntu

Okay, first problem. I followed the guide Mr Green gave me, and the ubuntu side was easy. When I went to arch however to install the ssh-viewer and ssh-server, pacman -S ssh-viewer and pacman -S ssh-server both gave nothing. So, I did pacman -S ssh, hoping that this would do the same. It installed something, but apparently it's not the same, cos when I follow the rest of the guide, this is what I get:

linus@linus-desktop:~$ vncviewer -via 82.173.131.143 myhost:1
ssh: connect to host 82.173.131.143 port 22: Connection refused
vncviewer: Tunneling command failed: /usr/bin/ssh -f -L 5599:myhost:5901 82.173.

So, anyone got any ideas?

decaturguy

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 117

Re: TightVNC between Arch - XP and Arch - Ubuntu

add

sshd:ALL

to /etc/hosts.allow