Remote desktop sessions to your Helsinki University work computer

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

If you have a work laptop, you can take it home to do work. But what if you have a desktop computer and need to access it from home? The technology to make this possible exists for more than 20 years, but if you think that University IT has made this easy for you, you would be wrong. In fact, I don’t know anybody who knows how to do this (let alone how to make the process easy). Even with the setup explained below, some things do not work well (e.g. I never could figure out how to get the file sharing to work with a Mac-to-Mac connection and thus I still use Fugu with a separate tunnelled sftp connection to transfer files). You have several options:

Tunneling of remote X11 output to a local machine behind a firewall (ssh, X11, ForwardX11)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

If X11 forwarding is globally disallowed in your local machine, you need to override this by editing ~/.ssh/config: Host hostname.domain.org ForwardX11 yes Then you just ssh into the remote machine hostname.domain.org: ssh -X username@hostname.domain.org And execute some program that outputs to X11, e.g.: xclock &

Tunneling on Michael’s Domain

Remote desktop sessions to your Helsinki University work computer

Tunneling of remote X11 output to a local machine behind a firewall (ssh, X11, ForwardX11)