On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Hawke wrote:
> I thought I recalled seeing on one of the mailing listsi'm on, someone who
> tried (andsuccessfully) combined VNC on top of SSH to solve the clear text
> login problem with using VNC. I went to the archive page and saw nothing.
> Any suggestions on this would be most appreciated (and problably save my
> employer thousands of dollars too). Thanks in advance for any help.
> -Hawke
>
Hi,
VNC works very straight over SSH's port-forwarding facility. Assuming 5901
as the standard port for VNC you have to establish an interactive
connection to the remote host with "-L 5901:remote_host:5901" as an
option.
Then you may connect via VNC to the remote host launching a command like
"vncviewer localhost:1" (assuming the remote desktop has display :1).
The tricky thing with VNC may be that there is no way to give a portnumber
as an option for vncviewer. That's why you have to choose the same port on
the local machine as forwarding port.
Regards,
Steffen
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