VNC
In the Finder select the “Go” menu and choose the “Connect To Server…” menu option. This will bring up a dialog box headed “Connect To Server” and in the top…
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If you are starting a long running process you might find it better to use VNC rather than SSH with XRedirect. Using VNC means that a job will continue running even if you get knocked off the network.
Required Software
For the Mac you will need no special software. For Windows or Debian or Ubuntu Linux you can get a good VNC viewer from RealVNC. This is the same client we install on lab machines.
Starting The Service
SSH to a CSE login server :- ssh login.cse.unsw.edu.au Then you will have an ordinary command line on your target machine. So on its command line type :- vncserver VNC server will say “You will require a password to access your desktops.” and ask you to enter a password twice. After that it will type back some text including the line :- New 'machine:1 (username)' desktop is machine:1 where machine is the name of the computer and username is your username. Note that on some computers the number might be higher than 1 - this is because others have opened up VNC sessions on the computer. Now the address you will need for your VNC client is _machine_.cse.unsw.edu.au:_portnumber_ - you can calculate the portnumber by adding the number you got above to 5900, so in our example it is 5901.
Connecting From Windows or Linux
Run RealVNC by double clicking on it. It will then open a dialog asking for the name of the Server. Type _machine_.cse.unsw.edu.au:_portnumber_ Then a second dialog will come up asking for the password. Enter the password you selected when you started VNC Server.
Connecting From Mac OS X
vnc://<machine>.cse.unsw.edu.au:<portnumber>
Useful Options
vncserver -geometry 1600x900
Stopping The Server
vncserver -kill :_number_