Re: port forwarding and RDP or ssh

[Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Hi, I have a fedora38 system on Optonline with port 1024 forwarded from
> the router to 1024 on the fedora38 system where ssh is listening. I'm
> currently using the following to connect:
>
> $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/mykey-key.rsa -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901
> <http://127.0.0.1:5901> -Y -l gary remotehost -p 1024
>
> I'd like to be able to have applications launched on the remote system
> appear on my desktop, also using fedora38. What's the best way to do that?
>
> I've read about RDP and gnome-remote-session but much of the docs appear
> to be out-of-date. General advice on what works in 2024 would be
> appreciated.
>
> My friend is having difficulty with his evolution configuration. I'd
> like to be able to launch evolution on his PC and have it appear on mine.

I'm not clear on if you want to do desktop sharing or a remote X
connection.  For an application like evolution, I would suggest desktop
sharing.  If you want to run evolution and have it display on your
screen using X forwarding, then you just need the "-X" option to ssh.
No port forwarding required (other than ssh to get in).  Then you have
to run the application and it only displays on your screen (slowly).

I forgot that the command-line I was using was from a long time ago when I actually had tigervnc working properly over port 5901. When I connect using just -X then try to run evolution, it fails:

$ ssh -X -i ~/.ssh/mykey-key.rsa -l gary remotehost -p 1024

[gary@fedora ~]$ evolution
(evolution:3644): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 09:41:05.182: Your application did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using g_application_run().

If you want to do desktop sharing, then your friend needs to enable that
in the sharing section of the Gnome settings.

Do you have more specifics on that? I've tried search for "sharing" and "remote" in my GNOME settings in Cinnamon and nothing is found.

Then you would forward
port 3389 instead of 5901 and connect to localhost using rdp and the
credentials that your friend configures.

My current preferred method is to use rustdesk.  There's an rpm
available from the website.  I run my own server and relay for it, so
it's completely private.  I've only used it for supporting windows users
so far, so I'm not sure how well it works for Wayland on the remote
system.  It works fine with Wayland on the viewing side.

It appears rustdesk is only the client, correct? The server is built-in to Wayland as an RDP server, correct?

Thanks,
Alex

 

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