Remote Desktop Connection & Desktop Sharing not authorising??

[Guest]

Hey hey,
I have managed to figure out how to connect to my brothers comp via these two programs.

I had to port forward both our routers and input our external ip address. The programs seem to see each other and start the authorising process but get 1/4 the way through then times out this takes about 3 minutes to time out


Any suggestions

Hammo

what i need to do is log in to my brothers comp and show him how to do stuff. Is there any other easier way?

[lykwydchykyn]

Re: Remote Desktop Connection & Desktop Sharing not authorising??

You can use this method:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-279069.html

I've used it before, but it is not very secure so don't use it unless your computers are behind a router.

[XstatyK]

Re: Remote Desktop Connection & Desktop Sharing not authorising??

I don't know of a way to share a session together so that you both are viewing the same thing. But there are a couple of things that work as a workaround.
1) setup opensshserver on his system, add yourself as a user and connect to it via Putty
Then you could (if your connecting from a windows machine - you didn't say) install XMING and with X11 port forwarding you will be able to run the gui on applications remotely on the windows machine

2) Install freenx (works on both linux clients and windows)
download (all 3) installation packages for linux: client, node, server
http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=5

Remote client for windows:
http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-windows.php

run the following command:
sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge
copy key from: /usr/NX/share/keys/default_id.dsa
To windows NX client and import key

To change default ssh port you will need to make the changes in the following files:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
/usr/NX/etc/node.cfg
/usr/NX/etc/server.cfg

Restart ssh and NXserver
ssh- sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Nxserver sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --stop
--start
On windows NXclient configure to connect to specified port