Unless I misunderstand what you're saying, it has to happen from the client side. If you've already connected to the server directly with VNC, you've got an unencrypted connection across the network, and SSH won't help you.
It works like this: VNC viewer --> SSH client ======================> SSH server --> VNC server ------------------------- ------------------------- Client computer Server computer -- Unencrypted loopback connection == Encrypted network connection -----Original Message----- From: Boyd D. Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SSH, VNC, Windows Thanks Michael, There is a key described at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html called LoopbackOnly. I was a little surprised that this key was not already created with the default of 0. I had to create the key LocalMachine\Software\ORL\WinVNC\ key: LoopbackOnly value 1. This does cause WinVNC to only accept connections from the local machine. But that's only half the battle. All the documentation I have found so far on SSH describes how to redirect ports when initiated from the client side. But I need to configure the OpenSSH server to redirect incoming Browser connections to WinVNC. That's the first major hurdle. I still need help in this regard. Thanks, Boyd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Software Project Manager www.VCIControls.ca On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:36:19PM -0500, Boyd D. Mills wrote: > > The requirement is to ENFORCE secure access to VNC through the web > browser. The first thing is to configure OpenSSH on the server > machine to effectively sit between VNC server and the remote browser > machine. The second (hopefully two in the same) is to disable > unsecure connections to VNC. Take a look at the AllowLoopback and AuthHosts advanced options: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html If you allow loopback access and deny all hosts except 127.0.0.1, you can limit network access to those being forwarded by SSH. This will also allow unencrypted connections from the localhost, but that probably is not a problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
