----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim McGarry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: VNC and SSH tunneling
> I'm running the VNC server on a Solaris 8 box with OpenSSH. > > Normally I use vncviewer.exe (Windows NT/98) forwarded through an SSH > connection (PuTTY) . this works fine. I start the server with -localhost > (port 5900 is forwarded locally) > > What I'd like to do is start the vncviewer in listen mode and make a server > initiated connection tunnelled through a remotely forwarded port. > > The reverse connections work fine without the SSH tunnel, but I've had > absolutely no success in opening a reverse connection to vncviewer through a > remote port forward. > > Does anyone have experience of this, what remote ports (5500? 5900?) do I > need to forward and where do I forward them to (localhost? 127.0.0.1? > ipaddress?) are there any configs that I need to take care of in OpenSSH or > PuTTY > > > Tim McGarry Disclaimer - I've never tried so I reserve the right to be wrong! The vncviewer listens on port 5500 for the server connection. That means if you forward the OpenSSH server's port 5500 to the client that communication should work. You would tell the server to make a connection to localhost. You also need a connection for the VNC session to go over once it is started. This would be over the normal port of 5900. So you need a tunnel from the PuTTY machine to the OpenSSH server on port 5900. The PuTTY docs talk about how to set up the two types of tunnels here: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.52/htmldoc/Chapter3.html#3.5 Again Disclaimer - I've never tried it so I might be wrong. If the server sends a hard coded IP instead of localhost it could very well try to bypass the SSH tunnel and try to go direct and not work. Just curious, if you can log in normally and start the session from client side, what advantage are you getting from starting the connection from the server side instead? -- William Hooper Save the whales, collect the whole set ! _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
