Loading VNC onto a remote Macintosh running SSH

- download OSXvnc

- Move diskimage to remote computer

scp OSXvnc1.5.dmg admin@thatmac.fooschool.edu:~/Applications/

- ssh to remote comptuer, go into Applications folder, mount dmg file, go into .app folder

open OSXvnc1.5.dmg

cd OSXvnc.app

- start the binary over ssh. The localhost option sets it up to sshtunnel.

./OSXvnc-server -localhost

- establish ssh tunnel from local computer

ssh -l admin -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 thatmac.fooschool.edu

- start local vnc client to localhost

vncviewer 127.0.0.1

SSH will tunnel the vnc client to the service you started on the remote comptuer. It should pop up. It’ll be slow. But it works.