I agree totally with this opinion. I have been using vnc through ssh with a few client for almost a year now. It is great as most corporate firewalls have both 80 and 443 open for web browsers. As long as it is not packet filtering, or proxied, then all works well. All the client needs to implement is the ssh client (and some configuration), and putty works well for this. The benefits are, the client needs not to reconfigure the network or special access. Only one machine is needed for the ssh tunnel. And it is encrypted through the ssh tunnel.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Ossmann Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Providing (Windows) VNC support to clients that have strict corporate firewalls On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:34:16PM -0500, Chuck Renner wrote: > > There needs to be a way to change ALL Ports used by VNC, not just the ports > it listens on. Ports used for outgoing connections should be able to be > changed both on the command-line, and through the GUI interface. Since this > isn't built-in, I had to build a small hack instead. Most people who are concerned with firewall traversal are also concerned about the very insecure protocol used by VNC traveling over the Internet. If you tunnel VNC through SSH on port 443, it solves both problems. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
