On Friday 13 February 2004 10:32 pm, MKlinke wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 18:09, Robert Denton wrote: > > Hello all, I am wondering if anyone can advise the best way to go > > about remotely invoking SSH on a system that is on a private > > network, to connect to a local computer. For example, if I am > > working on the host workstation.here.tld and I need to manage > > remote_box.private_ip.tld, I cannot just start up an SSH session > > because it is not on an accessible IP. However, perhaps there is a > > way to get that remote box to establish an SSH session with me, so > > that I can control it via command line. Any ideas? A similar thing > > exists in the form of TightVNC. The way it works is that you have > > a service listening for incoming VNC connections, and as long as > > there is a way to invoke VNC from the remote box, you can accept > > the connection and work away. But what I need is the command line > > version of that. If anyone has any ideas on how I can implement > > this, please let me know. TIA. Robert. > > Take a look at this thread. It should kick you off in the right > direction if I understand what you want. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=107049194915164&w=2 Cool. I didn't know this. I had similar problem and what I did was I give the remote box access to my X (usingh xhost +<ip_address>), then in the remote box I start a terminal with the display set to my local box, so the terminal is X forwarded. Then i have terminal here locally that is actually the terminal of the remote box. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
