Hi All, I just started to play with vnc, but I do have experience with remote port forwarding with ssh. This is the problem I encountered:
At work, behind my employers firewall, I run the vnc server (on windows 2000) on the standard 5900 port. I then use a ssh client to connect to my linux machine at home, therebye forwarding the remote port 5900 to the local port 5900 : "ssh -l root -R:5900:localhost:5900 my.machine.at.home", When at home, I run the vncviewer (for Linux), I expected to get my desktop at work when doing "vncviewer localhost", but the vncviewer stops and says, "local loopback connections are disabled". I guess my port forwarding is not the problem: when I try to telnet to localhost 5900, I get a response: > telnet localhost 5900 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. RFB 003.003 The vncviewer seems to prevent users from connecting to a server that runs on the same machine (because it doesn't make sense to do that), but in my case it does make sense, because I forwarded the port to (the same portnumber on) the machine at work. What am I doing wrong? I would very much appreciate suggestions or help. Thanks Marijn _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
