On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:15, LS wrote: > My Reply under "Louis>" > <snip>
Hi Louis, > What I need to know now is how do I make the vnc connection > secure via SSH. Anyone knows how to do this ? I remember reading > about this from a url on the web. I can't find that url anymore. > Anyway I did not really understand it properly. > I can help with this bit at least, you can use the -L option to SSH to forward the VNC port on the server to a local port. ssh -C -L listen-port:host:port If VNC on your server is on port 5500, you might do: ssh -C -L 5501:server-ip-address:5500 then, on your local machine (not in the ssh session) you can type: vncviewer localhost:5501 to connect via the tunnel. Good luck, Felix <snip> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
