Ssh – How to view the remote desktop that is behind a NAT router

remote desktopsshubuntu-10.04

I have my ubuntu machine at work and I'd like to use remote desktop to work from home. However the remote machine is on a behind a NAT router and not directly connected to the internet.

I am able to remotely connect through ssh to a server, from which I then ssh to my remote machine. This has been beneficial, however I am currently working on a GUI application so just the command line doesn't work so well. Any ideas?

I have tried using ssh with the -X flag on both sessions, but this doesn't work.
I am trying to connect from Windows Vista through a Mac server (isn't it a great setup?).

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You say remote desktop and tag your question ubuntu-10.04. So I assume you are using VNC and the development machine is ubuntu.

On your Vista machine do the equivalent of ssh -L 5910:ubuntu_ip:5900 mac_ip (following those putty screenshots: hostname=mac_ip, source port=5910, destination=ubuntu_ip)

Point your VNC client to localhost:10

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The real answer here is probably to just give you the right search terms so you can do some product comparison. I think what you're talking about is "application virtualization," "application streaming," or "application sequencing" depending on the product. Some options include XenApp, App-V, SVS, and ThinApp.

The only one I know anything about is App-V, but I think that's probably too much overhead for what you want to do. Are there many other people that need to do the same thing, or is this just for you?

Edit: Just found this in another similar ServerFault question.

SSH – Launch a Screen Session with a Command Over SSH on a Remote Server

Try using the -t option to ssh

ssh -t root@my.machine screen "tail -f /var/log/messages"

From man ssh

-t      Force pseudo-tty allocation.  This can be used to execute arbi-
        trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be
        very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services.  Multiple -t
        options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.

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