: Is there a proxy that I can run on my gateway box that will let me
: connect via vncviewer, pick the target address or hostname, and then
: enter the vnc password for that system as usual? Can it be done some
: other -- perhaps simpler -- way?
Well... the unix/linux tightvnc viewer has -via, so that you can
run an ssh server on the gateway box, and then just
vncviewer -via gatewaybox targetbox
Add GUI to taste, and Bob's your uncle.
I'm not sure if tightvnc for windoze has the same extension
(quite possibly not, given less standardization in windows
ssh clients), but even there, you could script a dialogue
that prompted for the targetbox name, and started an ssh session
through the gateway to the target, and (after a suitable small
pause) started a vncviewer session via that tunnel; the password
would then be prompted for. A bit clumsy, but hidden under a bit
of scripting, not too bad.
For example, when you give the above command with -via,
what gets started is (roughly)
ssh -N -L 5901:targetbox:5900 gatewaybox
vncviewer localhost:1
so you could start the windows equivalent, given the target box name
(and presuming the gateway box name is part of the scripted wrapper).
( actually, it starts ssh -f -L [whatnot] gatewaybox sleep 20,
but -N does the same thing better... and you can configure
tightvnc to use -N if you want... but I digress. )
Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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