Win2000 VNC server over SSH

[Damon McMahon]

Greetings,

Before anyone pulls their hair out, I have studied the article on this subject at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html in detail, as well as the post relating to WinNT at http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/1999-March/005430.html but [probably I've missed something] to no avail.

My configuration: Windows 2000 Professional SP3 with RealVNC 3.3.5 and NetworkSimplity OpenSSH 3.4p1, both installed as services.

VNC server runs successfully when viewed over a direct ethernet connection [switch, same subnet, ports opened on firewall] using the VNCThing client on MacOSX 10.1.5.

SSH server runs successfully when a simply login connection is established using:

ssh <Win2Khost>

from the MacOSX host.

However, I cannot get port forwarding to work with sshd<->vncserver. I run:

ssh -L 5901:<Win2Khost>:5900 <Win2Khost>

on the MacOSX client, but when I then attempt to connect to localhost:1 using VNC viewer (VNCThing) I get a message saying the connection was refused because the password was incorrect [it's not].

By using tcpdump I have established that there is TCP traffic between exchanged between <MacOSXhost>:random-port and <Win2Khost>:22 after I attempt to connect to localhost:1 via VNC, so the port forwarding on the client-side would seem to working?

Any suggestions?


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