On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:26 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these > >> > >> curious markings: > >> > security note: > >> > vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. > >> > any ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only. > >> > even better, try a knocking daemon. > >> > >> This is why you set up an SSH tunnel between the two machines. The > >> Handbook (as always) shows how to do this, with examples. > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> Christopher Nehren > > > > To forward a VNC session through SSH, the user will need to install > > a SSH application on the Windows computer. PuTTY is a free > > example, and is available at: > > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > AFAIK Putty is a client only. The original user wanted to access his > WinXP Home system from FreeBSD. So, Putty isn't going to do it. I > think there is an OpenSSH implementation (both client and server) for > Win32 that runs on XP. I know the cygwin implementation works (but > the original poster may not want that much added to the XP system). > > http://www.cygwin.com/ and http://www.openssh.org/
You're right -- good catch. Thanks, Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"