Adam Walker wrote: > I am trying to enable vnc over ssh. I'm going from my machine at work > (XP) to my home machine (Fedora Core 2). I have a D-Link router behind > my cable modem. I can open a port (5901) on my router and use vnc > alone, which I know isn't secure. I opened port 22 on my router to > enable ssh. I can ssh to my box at home. I am using putty to ssh. I > enabled a tunnel to forward 5901 from work to remote port 5901 at home. > I can open the ssh session in putty, and I can connect using vnc. And > now the main part of my question.......Is my vnc viewer session secured > over ssh? > > Thank you > Adam > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
If I did well understand your configuration, you can close port 5901 on your router. If now you connect your vncclient to localhost:5901, then you'll go through the ssh tunnel. -- Samuel Degrande LIFL - UMR8022 CNRS - INRIA Futurs - Bat M3 Phone: (33)3.28.77.85.30 USTL - Universite de Lille 1 Fax: (33)3.28.77.85.37 59655 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX - FRANCE [CA certs: http://igc.services.cnrs.fr/CNRS-Standard/recherche.html ] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
