Thanks for the info, unfortinitly, i wasn't detailed enough about the setup, its a windows viewer to a linux server.
Sorry for the miscommunication. bryce On Monday 14 July 2003 07:00 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: > Bryce wrote: > > Has anyone tried setting up a VNC session through SSH, from a windows box > > to a linux box? Can you point me to any good documentation and or tips? > > Which one is the server? Windows or Linux? > > I did it with Windows being the server. > > Emerge (eerrrr... doble click) on OpenSSH setup program. Add the passwd and > group. Setup winvnc to listen ONLY on loopback. > > Then on the Linux box (client) > > $ ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 windowsbox > $ vncviewer -encondings tight localhost:0 > (I'm using tightvnc) > > The other way around can't be that hard. I guess you can use PuTTY on > Windows to open the tunnel, the rest is almost identical. > > HTH, > Norberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
