rx11vnc

#!/bin/sh
#
# usage: rx11vnc [-s] <host>:<xdisplay>
#        rx11vnc [-s] <host>            (assumes xdisplay is 0)
#
# -s means use ssh instead of rsh.
# -S tries to tunnel the vnc traffic thru ssh.  (experimental...)
#
#set -xv

#
# Place your x11vnc cmd + options here (must have -bg and -display
# with -display as the last one)
#
cmd="x11vnc -nap -q -bg -display"
viewer="vncviewer"
rsh=rsh

#
# The following two settings are only used under -S (ssh tunnel)
#
# Unfortunately, we have to set up the ssh port redirection *before*
# x11vnc has started and selected its listening port.
# tunnel_ports is a list of ports we expect/hope to be free on both
# the local and remote machines:
#
tunnel_ports="5900 5901 5902 5903"
#
# VNC has a poor default in that if the client appears to be emanating
# from the local machine, then raw encoding is preferred.  With ssh port
# redirection we appear to be coming from the localhost, but we are not.
# We pass this encoding list to the viewer to give lowest preference to
# raw encoding:
#
tunnel_encodings="copyrect tight zrle hextile zlib corre rre"

if [ "$USER" = "runge" ]; then
	cmd="x11vnc.expt -nap -q -bg -rfbauth .vnc/passwd -display"
	viewer="vncviewerz"
fi

if [ "X$1" = "X-s" ]; then
	shift
	rsh=ssh
elif [ "X$1" = "X-S" ]; then
	shift
	rsh=ssh
	tunnel=1
	cmd=`echo "$cmd" | sed -e 's/ / -localhost /'`
fi

remote=$1
if echo "$remote" | grep ':' > /dev/null; then
	:
else
	remote="$remote:0"
fi

host=`echo "$remote" | awk -F: '{print $1}'` 
disp=`echo "$remote" | awk -F: '{print $2}'` 
disp=":$disp"
if [ "X$host" = "X" ]; then
	echo "bad host."
	exit 1
fi

# start the remote x11vnc:
if [ $tunnel ]; then
	# much more kludgy for tunnelling:
	tmp=/tmp/rx11vnc.$$
	redir=""
	used_ports=`netstat -an | egrep '(ESTABLISHED|LISTEN) *$' \
	    | sed -e 's/^[ 	]*//'   -e 's/^tcp[ 	0-9][ 	0-9]*//' \
	          -e 's/[ 	].*$//' -e 's/^.*[^0-9]//' | sort -nu`
	for p in $tunnel_ports
	do
		ok=1
		for u in $used_ports
		do
			if [ "X$p" = "X$u" ]; then
				echo "port $u is in use. skipping it"
				ok=
				break
			fi
		done
		if [ $ok ]; then
			redir="$redir -L $p:localhost:$p"
		fi
	done
	#
	# Have ssh put the command in the bg, then we look for PORT=
	# in the tmp file.  The sleep at the end is to give us enough
	# time to connect thru the port redir, otherwise ssh will exit
	# before we can connect.
	#
	time=15
	$rsh -f $redir $host "$cmd $disp; echo END; sleep $time" > $tmp

	i=0
	while [ $i -lt $time ]
	do
		sleep 1
		if grep '^PORT=' $tmp > /dev/null; then
			port=`grep '^PORT=' $tmp | sed -e 's/PORT=//'`
			if [ "X$port" != "X" ]; then
				break
			fi
		fi
		i=`expr $i + 1`
	done
	cat $tmp
	rm -f $tmp
else
	port=`$rsh $host "$cmd $disp" | grep '^PORT=' | sed -e 's/PORT=//'`
fi

echo "x11vnc port is '$port'"

# now start up the viewer on this end:
if echo "$port" | grep '^[0-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
	if [ $port -lt 6000 -a $port -ge 5900 ]; then
		# vncviewer special cases 0-99
		port=`expr $port - 5900` 
	fi
	if [ $tunnel ]; then
		$viewer -encodings "$tunnel_encodings" "localhost:$port"
	else
		$viewer "$host:$port"
	fi
else
	echo "bad port."
	exit 1
fi