I think you're redirecting VNC from 5901 to localhost:5900, but then
asking the vncviewer to open on port 5901.

What if you do ONE of the following:
ssh -L 5901:192.168.0.203:5901  (instead of 5900)

-OR-
 Vncviewer localhost:0

??

--TwinkieStix



On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:00, Simon Ree wrote:
> Having a problem with tightvnc and openssh.
> 
> my laptop: 192.168.0.100
> sshd server: 192.168.0.203
> vncserver: 192.168.0.203  
> 
> [simon@localhost simon]$ ssh -L 5901:192.168.0.203:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Last login: Tue Dec 17 17:43:10 2002 from 192.168.0.100
> [system@sales system]$
> 
> When I open vncviewer and point it to localhost:1 it bombs with this
> error:
> 
> [system@sales system]$ channel 2: open failed: connect failed:
>  Connection refused
> 
> Works great when not using a ssh tunnel.  ssh works for everything
> else.  Any thoughts?
-- 
TwinkieStix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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