Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-24 Thread Kyle Yamnitz
do I understand you right - you can`t reach the server directly but have to use a http proxy ? then, ssh won`t help here... Well, I think that's the case... My IE web browser at work has all the proxy server settings in it, and we have to go through a certain proxy server along with the

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-24 Thread Björn Persson
Kyle Yamnitz wrote: I have my own LAN at home behind a LinkSys firewall + router (both machines are 2 GHz run Win XP). Here are the problems I'm having with Jim's VNC HTTP Tunneling: 1. When having a friend try to access my system remotely, he gets either of the following messages

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-24 Thread Kyle Yamnitz
192.168.1.160 is meaningless outside your home network. If you really want to expose your VNC server to the Internet, you must use your external address and tell your Linksys router to forward the relevant ports to the machine where the VNC server runs. I realize that. The 192.168.1.160

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-24 Thread Björn Persson
Kyle Yamnitz wrote: On the other hand, I *can* use SSH software at work to connect to my web server without a problem, so maybe I would be okay? Yes. Everything that SSH tunnels is passed through the same TCP connection as the SSH session itself, so if you can connect with SSH then you can

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-23 Thread roland
use SSH :) you can tunnel vnc through that. this is the most secure solution, too. I would reccomend doing this. ssh can run on ANY tcp port and tunnel tcp connections through a single ssh connection. see for a first start: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html You don`t need an extra

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-23 Thread Kyle Yamnitz
use SSH :) you can tunnel vnc through that. this is the most secure solution, too. I would reccomend doing this. ssh can run on ANY tcp port and tunnel tcp connections through a single ssh connection. see for a first start: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html You don`t need an

Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems...

2003-03-23 Thread roland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:37 AM Subject: Re: VNC HTTP Tunneling problems... use SSH :) you can tunnel vnc through that. this is the most secure solution, too. I would reccomend doing this. ssh can run on ANY tcp port and tunnel tcp connections