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===== Configuration ===== | ===== Configuration ===== | ||
- | You don't have to configure much, but you can control what applications to run in yout VNC session. The startup script for VNC is **'' | + | You don't have to configure much, but you can control what applications to run in yout VNC session. The startup script for VNC is **'' |
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Note: if you want to run KDE Plasma in your vnc session, this is the setup: | Note: if you want to run KDE Plasma in your vnc session, this is the setup: | ||
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- | You cannot directly connect to a vncserver from outside the institute, since VNC itself is only minimally encrypted, and not secure enough to be exposed to the net. The solution is then to combine VNC with a SSH tunnel. | + | You cannot directly connect to a vncserver from outside the institute, since VNC itself is only minimally encrypted, and not secure enough to be exposed to the net. The solution is then to combine VNC with a SSH tunnel. And since many of our servers and compute nodes and clusters are not directly reachable from outside, you may need to set up a ssh ProxyJump (see [[ssh: |
Now we could try to describe how to set up such a tunnel, but the mechanism is know to vncviewer, so usually it is as easy as adding '' | Now we could try to describe how to set up such a tunnel, but the mechanism is know to vncviewer, so usually it is as easy as adding '' |