[Box-Admins] Someone has registered on squeaksource.com with a wide character in their name

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Jun 30 04:17:51 UTC 2016


Thank you Levente, I can connect to the image now. I did not understand
that I should start RFBServer exactly as before. It works fine, thank you
for explaining.

Dave

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 04:25:06AM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:46:48PM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> >>Thanks Dave,
> >>
> >>I've changed two names and it works again.
> >>I've also disabled remote connections to the VNC server. At the same
> >>time updated the README file with a describing how to connect to the VNC
> >>over ssh.
> >
> >Hi Levente,
> >
> >Noob problem, please be patient.
> >
> >I am having trouble figuring out how to connect through ssh. I am not 
> >experienced
> >with this so I am probably doing something wrong.
> >
> >I created new keys with ssh-keygen, and copied the public key to box3 with
> >
> >  $ ssh-copy-id ssdotcom at squeaksource.com
> >
> >This works fine, and I can ssh to davidlewis at box3.squeak.org without 
> >entering
> >a password, so I think that the keys are working.
> >
> >I then do this to set up the tunneling:
> >
> >  $ ssh -N -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 davidlewis at box3.squeak.org
> >
> >I am using a Vinagre remote desktop viewer, and I connect to 127.0.0.1:1
> >to make the connection. I see this error in the window where I set up the
> >tunneling:
> >
> >  $ ssh -N -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 davidlewis at box3.squeak.org
> >  channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
> 
> The error message means that the tunnel is working, but there's no socket 
> listening on port 5901 on the server. Did you start RFBServer the way 
> you described it in the README file?
> 
> >
> >So I think that I am doing something wrong here.
> 
> You should do everything the same way you did before, except for setting 
> up the ssh tunnel and connecting to 127.0.0.1:5901 instead of to the box 
> in your VNC client.
> 
> >
> >I am assuming that I should get a connection to an X11 desktop on box3,
> >although I should mention that the VM for squeaksource.com is running
> >headless, so its Squeak window would not be visible in an X11 desktop.
> 
> Your VNC client should show the Squeak desktop. There's no X11 server 
> involved there.
> 
> Levente
> 
> >
> >Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >


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