On Tuesday 18 October 2005 23:27, Pugliese, Edward wrote: > I am trying to reach a VNC server running on an AIX5.3 host at home ( I > tried to a Solaris 8 host at home with the same results). They are > behind a DLINK cable router. > > I have port forwarding set for port 9999 --> 5901 and have started the > server with "vncserver :1". The "netstat -an" confirms the process is > listening on 5801 for HTTP requests and 5901 for vncviewer requests. > > I can successfully connect with vncviewer going to "hostname:9999" when > it is not using an SSH tunnel. > > I have port forwarding set for port 8888 --> 22 for ssh. I can > successfully connect with ssh using "ssh -p 8888 hostname" from a > command line or from a PUTTY session going to port 8888. > > I have created a putty entry with the same ssh parameters and then under > SSH tunnels I have created an entry with source port 5901 (local) and > destination "hostname:5901" since the SSH tunnel should hide the port > forwarding of 9999 --> 5901. I get the normal SSH prompt for userid > and password. I then try and start the vncviewer and connect to > localhost:1 or 127.0.0.1:1 and get a message "The connection closed > unexpectedly. Do you wish to attempt to reconnect to ...:". > > I have read through the FAQ's and did some Google searches but can not > find a problem that matches. Am I missing something completely obvious > ? > > What gets me is that I set up a VNC connections successfully with the > same PC and a local UNIX server with no problem. > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
Try setting up tunnel in ssh with -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 (5901 on your local machine will be tunneled to remote machine and from there to 127.0.0.1:5901) Jerry _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
