Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions?

Re:Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? by gaius on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:20AM (#475158)

A VNC or RDP session running on a stable host somewhere, running full screen on your laptop, so you only have one thing to reconnect to.

What you want would be cool but it can't be done with TCP/IP.

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Re:Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? by sounddust on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:33AM (#475177)

VNC would be painfully slow, though.

it can't be done with TCP/IP. It surely can, but would have required someone to figure it out. Surely a combination of an SSH client which reconnects (and therefore temporarily remembers your password/key) with screen might do it. But I'm hoping someone has been in the same situation and has figured out a somewhat elegant solution.

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Re:Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? by gaius on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:54AM (#475203)

You'd get bogged down in retransmit backoff before you knew it!

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Re:Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? by andrewtj on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @07:09PM (#476230)

Look in to NoMachine NX (http://nomachine.com/) rather than VNC. For some tasks I use a NoMachine NX desktop on a Linode Ubuntu server from the other side of the planet - it's quite useable. Over 3G web browsing is often faster via the remote desktop than browsing sites directly.

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Re:Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? by safetytrick on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @04:30PM (#475995)

vnc all the time... if you hate yourself

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