Hello guys James, when you put /and connect to "vncviewer gateway:12345"/, gateway in this case is your remote IP or localhost IP ?!?!, the correct is a localhost IP, where you are creating the tunnel.
Cheers On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:34 AM, James Hinchey <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am having difficulty establishing vnc connections via an ssh tunnel. > We have a series of independent LANs, each one has one computer with an > interface to the wider network. I need to be able to VNC through this > gateway computer to any other computer on the internal network. I have > been attempting to do this using an ssh tunnel, but it doesn't always > work. > > > > I first establish the tunnel on the gateway machine with: > > > > /usr/bin/ssh -L localport:remoteIP:5900 localhost sleep 60 > > > > to allow the tunnel to expose a unique port for each computer inside > the network and attempt to connect to that port with vncviewer. > > > > So if I want to make a VNC connection to 192.168.103.12, I would set up > the tunnel > > > > /usr/bin/ssh -L 12345:192.168.103.12:5900 localhost sleep 60 > > > > and connect to "vncviewer gateway:12345" > > > > This seems to work about 50% of the time. The rest of the time I get > > > > main: unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111) > > > > It is more likely to connect when running realvnc from windows than > linux, but still not 100% of the time. > > > > Has anyone done anything similar? Am I missing something very obvious > here? > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > James > > > > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > -- ______________ Atenciosamente Waldirio msn: [email protected] Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
