Bug 622673 - Enhancement request: Vinagre manual should show how to setup ssh tunnelling
Enhancement request: Vinagre manual should show how to setup ssh tunnelling
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vinagre
Classification: Applications
Component: SSH
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: vinagre-maint
vinagre-maint
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Reported: 2010-06-25 00:02 UTC by brooknet
Modified: 2010-08-25 19:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description brooknet 2010-06-25 00:02:28 UTC 
In the manual/help text for Vinagre 2.30.x, no mention is made of the facility to tunnel a remote desktop connection over SSH.  It would be very helpful if this could be added, as the only way I have been able to tunnel a connection over SSH is to do this externally, by setting up the tunnel prior to connecting.

Example, where 'vnc_host' is the host running the VNC server that we wish to use:

ssh -N -L localhost:5901:localhost:5901 vnc_host

.. then connect to localhost:5901 in Vinagre.

My attempts at setting up tunnelling in Vinagre have met with a variety of password prompts and error messages.
Comment 1 Jonh Wendell 2010-08-25 12:06:13 UTC 
Vinagre is now able to do SSH tunneling out of the box, without needing to do any external setup.
Comment 2 brooknet 2010-08-25 19:28:24 UTC 
Great!  Many thanks.
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