I don’t know why only this particular invocation worked for me, but I finally figured out how to share my desktop screen over the Internet

My desktop machine at home is a Mac Mini 1.2 GHz PPC. I’m trying to connect with a MacBook 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo.

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MacBook% ssh -f -C -L 5901:localhost:5900 username@macmini.dynamic-dns-service.org ‘sleep 5’; open vnc://localhost:5901

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I found this on Extra Pepperoni.

5901 can be any port you want on your client machine. 5900 is where Screen Sharing/VNC lives. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory, I think.

Of course, viewing a 1680 x 1050 screen on an 1280 x 800 screen is probably not recommended.