SSH port-forward on boot?

[Vivaldi Gloria]

OK. I have found the ssh option I mentioned earlier. Add the following flag to ssh line:

-i /home/jack/.ssh/id_dsa

to use jack's identity when connecting. Or id_rsa if you use rsa keys. Here is the related part from man ssh:

-i identity_file
Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read. The default is
~/.ssh/identity for protocol version 1, and ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa for protocol version 2. Identity
files may also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file. It is possible to have multiple -i
options (and multiple identities specified in configuration files).

[europa]

I don't quite understand because your step father would nbot have to do anytihng at all. This can be done entirely on your end, you just have to have the VNC server running on his machine and listening. I do this all the time from my work computers to various machines on my metwork with no interaction needed on that end.

-Tim

I want to get the tunnel established on boot. If the server has to restart for whatever reason, I dont want to have to go in and run commands. If my stepfather wants to connect to his machine from work and the connection is down, he's SOL and has to bother me.

My server does stay up most of the time, but if I am still learning and I mess around on it all the time. I don't want to have to deal with this if i can get it to run automatically.

Unless you're trying to explain to me how to do it a diffderent way that I don't understand?

[europa]

OK. I have found the ssh option I mentioned earlier.

That's still giving me the same problem. I'm thinking that the script is running and establishing the tunnel but then closes the connection once it moves onto the next task. Could this be a possibility?

[Vivaldi Gloria]

Could this be a possibility?

Not sure now. I'm leaving now till tomorrow. I'll look into it again then.

[europa]

Not sure now. I'm leaving now till tomorrow. I'll look into it again then.

Ok. Thanks for the help.

[windependence]

I want to get the tunnel established on boot. If the server has to restart for whatever reason, I dont want to have to go in and run commands. If my stepfather wants to connect to his machine from work and the connection is down, he's SOL and has to bother me.

My server does stay up most of the time, but if I am still learning and I mess around on it all the time. I don't want to have to deal with this if i can get it to run automatically.

Unless you're trying to explain to me how to do it a diffderent way that I don't understand?

Well I'm still kinda confused because you could do this at the router level by forwarding a different VNC port to each PC like 5900 to yours, 5901 to his etc, and then all he would have to do is connect to the correct VNC session like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1

That should be pretty simple for him. Maybe I still don't understand your problem.

-Tim

[europa]

Oooh.

Desktop computers are continuous shut off and rebooted and are using DHCP to obtain their IP addresses. If you take a look at my first post, you'll see that i'm using netbios name instead of IP.

We don't want to setup static IPs on our desktops.

[windependence]

Why not? Security? Not much security through obscurity. Personally I don't see any reason for not doing that but you may have a good reason.

-Tim

[europa]

Why not? Security? Not much security through obscurity. Personally I don't see any reason for not doing that but you may have a good reason.

-Tim

Reason being that my stepdad doesn't really trust me with his computer and won't let me set it up.

I had static on my own PC for a while but ended up taking it off due to a conflict.

I would really like to learn how I could get around situations such as this so that I know how to get around problems in the future. Most of the stuff I know has been learned by trying to fix problems.

[europa]

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