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having trouble with remote desktop connection

by dmobbjr Jun 8, 2010 11:53AM PDT

I am not sure where this post belongs but I think this is the best place. What I am trying to do is connect to my Ubuntu machine using remote desktop connection from a windows computer with my flash drive. In other words I want to be able to plug my flash drive into any windows computer and be able to control my Umbuntu machine. Here are the steps I have done so far.

1. I went to system>preferences>remote_desktop and turned remote desktop connection on.

2. I set up my computer to receive an ssh connection with the command "sudo apt-get install openssh-server" which as I understand completely makes my computer ready for an ssh connection.

3. I signed up with DynDNS to create a free host name. When I was signing up it asked what ip address I wanted to connect to. It also said the ip address of your current location is 76.24.221.56. I just used the ip address that they gave me (this could be my problem).

4. I installed two windows programs on my flash drive. TunnelierPortable and TightVNC. Tunnelierportable is to create an ssh connection to my computer and TightVNC is for the remote desktop connection. When I use tunnelierportable to connect to my host name it says that my host name has "actively denied the connection" and thats as far as I have gotten (all I did was open the program, type my host name, then click connect).

As you can see there are a number of places where I may have messed up to cause that actively denied message or possibly there is a step that i didn't do. If anyone has any ideas as to how to make this work let me know. It would be greatly appreciated.

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You try do it in totaly wrong way

by GODhack Jun 8, 2010 4:16PM PDT

Red this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX

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suggestions

by jimmyhchan Jun 14, 2010 7:28AM PDT

2. you installed the ssh server but is the daemon running? do you have the vncserver daemon running?
3. if you are behind a router did you setup port forwarding. most routers (for security) block all incoming ports.
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maybe you should start small. make sure ssh works inside your network. test vnc works inside your network. make sure you can ping your machine from outside your network over dyndns. try to ssh using your external ip and your dyndns name.

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