David, PuTTY is available as a client, but I have to have a SSH server running to accept the PuTTY session. And short of installing cygwin, I haven't found an opensource option for this.
RDP sounds good, but I don't think it will work on my linux server (will it?) Thanks Kevin On 10/7/05, David Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I find RDP (Remote Desktop) FAR superior to VNC. I still > run VNC as a service, to offer layers of connectivity but client paint > requests are dated in comparison. (Plus it routes sound, printers, > etc). > > As for your connection problem, you should be able to tunnel thru your > firewall and deliver a connection to your Wintel box. > > Last I checked, PuTTY was on Windows too. And here it is: > http://www.openssh.org/windows.html > > But I haven't tried it recently since I use VPN. > > /David. > > David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:08 PM > To: Hardhats Sourceforge > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Port forwarding wizardy wanted... > > Hey all, > > I am using PuTTY to create a port forwarding tunnell to connect to my > linux server at work and run tightVNC viewer. That works OK. > > But occasionally I also want to connect to a windows desktop at my > work that is also behind the office firewall. What I have been doing > up to now is to connect with tightVNC to the linux server, and from > there run a VNCViewer to connect to the Win PC (which is also running > VNCServer). > > This involves running a remote desktop of another remote desktop, and > is quite slow. I would like to do is to forward the ports somehow > from the linux server directly to WinPC without having to have the > double VNC step that slows everything down. > > Is this possible? Any thoughts? > > Thanks > Kevin > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
