Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/11/11 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk>: > >> So that leads me to my next question, is it possible to forward the port >> to say, a virtual machine and then have another PC connect into the >> virtual machine to pick up the port forwarding. Sort of a proxy as such. >> >> > > Yes :) > > Imagine a network consisting of three hosts. > > user-pc (the person needing help), expert-laptop (your laptop), > expert-server. (your vps/server) > > On expert-laptop start gitso in helper mode > > From expert-laptop, connect to the server and setup a reverse ssh tunnel:- > > ssh -R5900:localhost:5900 expert-server > > This will bring port 5900 (used by vnc) from the server to your laptop. > > On user-pc the user starts gitso in the request for help mode and puts > "expert-server" in the box. > > On your laptop you should see their desktop. > > Cheers, > Al. > > Ahh that's brilliant, thanks Al. As mentioned, I use LogMeIn for Windows machines but I'm starting to install more Ubuntu desktops and this was always a concern, I'll give it a try.
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