VNCS :: A Simple VNC over SSH Client

What is VNCS?

VNCS is not a VNC server, nor is it a proprietary or specialized VNC client. It is a simple shell script which handles the establishment of a VNC connection through an SSH tunnel.

What are the system requirements?

This script is written for bash, so theoretically it will work for any system with a bash shell, although this has only been tested on Linux. In addition, this shell script requires that your system have a few basic utilities to make a connection. You must have:

An SSH client which supports SSH version 2
A VNC client. This script will attempt to launch KRDC and vncviewer in that order. I'll be adding in rdesktop shortly. You can use another client if you wish, but you'll have to modify the script to launch it for you.
lsof, if you wish for the tunnel to be closed automatically. This is the only and best way I know to find the proper process, but I have noticed that a significant number of systems do not install it by default. If someone has a better idea, let me hear it.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, you can contact the project admin, Brad Koch, through his developer profile at https://sourceforge.net/users/bjk2007/.