At 04:39 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
No, because I didn't think it was relevant. In my particular case, the machines can be any combination of Windows, Linux, and Solaris boxes that you want. Does that help?You don't mention what operating systems are involved
Unfortunately, that page does not deal with my usecase at all. It shows you how to forward a port in longer and longer chains of machines, but it does not (according to my reading of it) say anything about accessing multiple machines with a single forwarded port. In each case, the port is being forwarded to only one possible ultimate destination., but I believe this is answered on the "Using VNC with SSH" page ( http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html ) under "more advanced use". All communication over the Internet is handled by SSH port forwarding.
Let me describe the usecase in text instead of using a diagram, it may be clearer.
From home or on the road with my laptop, I often need to get access to one of several machines in my office, not just a terminal but the whole desktop. I may need to get at my workstation or a machine running automated tests or one of several servers. I don't know ahead of time exactly which of several machines I will need access to. There are several other developers in my office with the same need. What we all have to work with is a single SSH port that has been opened up in the firewall for remote access.
I think this scenario is probably fairly common. Running gotomypc on each of the machines would be a solution, but the company frowns on that as a security breach and is not willing to pay for subscriptions to it. So I am trying to find another way, and I was hoping that the combination of VNC and SSH might give it to me.
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