On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Zack Johnson wrote:
> I'm having trouble forwarding the ports used by VNC with a Netgear RT311.
> The FW shows the packets as open (when stealth scanning), and the packets
> seem to forward. However, VNC cannot establish a session. All works fine
> within the local network. I've searched through all of the relavant
> documentation, but have yet to find anything instructive.
>
> Is there a good resource I should check out that I've missed? Thanks!
If you need an immediate solution to this problem you could setup SSH on a
machine and use its port forwarding capabilities to tunnel VNC traffic
over. You would do something like
ssh -L 5901:VNCatOffice:5901 myssshsever.example.com
and then from your home machine connect to the local port 5901 which would
then get tunnelled through your SSH server at the office and then over to
the machine you want to get to.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html describes how to do it more
fully.
This gives you the benefit of being able to get to a whole farm of VNC
machines w/o having to set up static forwards for them on the router.
Chris
