I was told that I should use openSSH in Cygwin to make the forwarded connection to the gateway, then run vncviewer, but wasn't given many details. With vncserver working on my workstation, and it accessible remotely, I looked at using cygwin. After getting openSSH working in Cygwin, I tried vncviewer before I realized it wasn't in there. I couldn't find anything on adding vncviewer to cygwin, but saw mentioned that its easier just to use Windoz VNC Viewer. I found an article explaining how to make the forwarded connection using putty and knew that the terminal server had putty and Windoz VNC Viewer so tried it and it worked.
When I connect with putty straight to the gateway (no Remote Desktop Connection connection to Terminal Server), then use VNC Viewer, I get connection timed out (10060). I think I know how to make the connection from the command line rather than with the putty interface so tried it with Cygwin: ssh -f -N -C -T -l username -L 5905:10.3.1.194:5900 [gateway external IP]. VNC Viewer with this connection also times out. I think my Linux firewall on my home LAN may be blocking. If I flush iptables, I loose my IP masquerade and connectivity, so I'm trying to find out how to add a rule to allow port 5900. The way I understand it, when you make the SSH port forwared connection through the gateway, it opens up a port (5905) on the users computer where the users VNC Viewer can pick up the vncserver. Maybe there's something stopping putty from opening up that port when making the connection with the gateway. What methods can I use to tshoot this? Regards, Robert Van Overmeiren So it sounds like you problem is with cygwin, not VNC. Perhaps you will have better luck on a cygwin list? Have you started the cygwin X server? -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
