I’m helping a client set up an OS X server for me to remote into. We’re on a VPN together, so the server has a 10.1.1.XXX address. I can ssh in just fine but it’s a lot easier to install DMGs when you can double-click them…

They’ve set up access to ARD with the checkbox checked for my user, but I still get an error when I try to connect with the VNC client. “Connection failed: Apple Remote Desktop is not configured. Please configure it so VNC viewers may control screen with password.”

So, I googled around for solutions and came across your post. I’m not sure if DHCP has anything to do with my issues - as a VPN client perhaps it’s me with the weird IP.

In any case, I wonder if you could clarify what the ssh step is doing. It looks like it’s binding port 5900 to 6900, and port 22 to 6922, then ssh’ing to your (the client) machine? What does that do?

Sarah

Don’t start the command with the filename, and you don’t need any quotes for it. “cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys” looks right, but it seems to be complaining about your ~/.ssh directory.

Try the following:

cd ~/.ssh
ls -l
cp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
ssh 127.0.0.1

The cd should work if you have a .ssh directory. The ls should show you id_rsa.pub and likely other files, and the cp should copy the file. The ssh should log you back in without typing a password.

Good luck!

Note that in real life, you normally want to copy to a remote machine. There are two steps for this, the first only required if you might not have a remote .ssh directory (this assumes you already have an authorized_keys file on the local system):

ssh host mkdir -p .ssh
scp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys host:.ssh/

Note: All this assumes you actually have ~/.ssh/id_rsa; you will have to change filenames from the examples if not.

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Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ authorized_keys: “cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys” -bash: authorized_keys:: command not found Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ ssh 127.0.0.1 ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys cp: /Users/rogeradams/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ cp ~/.ssh/rogeradams_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorised_keys cp: /Users/rogeradams/.ssh/rogeradams_rsa.pub: No such file or directory Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ authorized_keys:”cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorised_keys” -bash: authorized_keys:cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorised_keys: No such file or directory Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$ authorised_keys: “cp ~/.ssh/rogeradams_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys” -bash: authorised_keys:: command not found Rogers-MacMini-3:~ rogeradams$

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Can anyone show me where I am going wrong?

Many thanks

Roger