About X and vnc sessions
VNC sessions
if your laptop runs a VNC client, that's the easy way to run interactive tools on faraday
on faraday
faraday
runs a vnc server, and here is how to create a VNC tunnel
example from a MAC:
ssh -L localhost:5901:vnc-your_slicename:5900 your_slicename@faraday.inria.fr
- while this is running I can use e.g. the
VNC Viewer
app on the MAC
and connect tolocalhost:1
, in order to get an interactive X11 session on faraday - using port e.g. 5902 instead of 5901 means I need to connect to
localhost:2
other OS'es:
significantly easier from a linux box
vncviewer -shared -via your_slicename@faraday.inria.fr vnc-your_slicename
see detailed instructions for other OS'es here (on faraday itself):
less /usr/share/doc/vncserver-sop/README.txt
where you replace
SERVER
withfaraday.inria.fr
andLOGIN
withyour_slicename
X11 sessions
if your laptop already runs an X server, you can create an X11 tunnel using either of openssh's native -X
or -Y
options
on faraday
ssh -Y your_slicename@faraday.inria.fr
firefox &
on a node
providided that the node OS has the X clients installed
ssh -Y your_slicename@faraday.inria.fr ssh -Y root@fit01
xterm &