Comments on: Making My Grandparents Leet Linux Users – Part 3

By: David

David — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:12:46 +0000

I really like this, but in my case, my parents have a couple of computers.

They have a static IP address and sit behind a router. Would the solution in this case to set a side a couple of ports to forward to different internal IPs?

By: wsfo

wsfo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:35:25 +0000

Pipi-

IP port numbers go from 0 to 65,536 (2^16).
The ‘lower’ numbers, 0 to 1023 (2^10), are reserved for common standard functions, like 80 for http.
The higher port numbers, over 1024 are pretty much available for whatever you’d like to use them for. In fact, some of them also have common uses — 8080 is often an alternative for http. Just don’t use the same port twice!

By: Paco

Paco — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:37:44 +0000

1) I wonder whether the vnc viewer through the ssh tunel could be used with a firewall that filters x11vnc’s server port. If so, then this could be an advantage to Christer’s suggestion about using vncviewer.

2) You haven’t explained what would you exactly see after executing
vncviewer localhost:1111 on you PC. Which desktop, which screen of which user.

3) quote: “To run it when the computer starts up, open xfce-autostart-editor and click “Add”. (If you are not using Xfce open the equivalent editor in your environment.)”

Most users would like to know how to find the equivalent thing without spending hours trying to find it and then asking in forums.

By: pipi

pipi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:23:14 +0000

I see that:

x11vnc viewer has built-in SSL encryption and authentication. No need for the ssh tunneling?

And it has mDNS service advertising. How id this used?

By: pipi

pipi — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:27:56 +0000

“to a high number”??
Only he who knows knows what this is, so why telling those who know what they can undertand if they already know?

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:18:21 +0000

I haven’t used the x11vnc but there is built-in ssh tunneling in the vncviewer client if you weren’t aware. You can do away with the -L port bindings and just use:

vncviewer -via user@host localhost

There you go. Tunnels the connection for you without all the extra port binding