I normally do this to connect to my VNC session from a remote host with tunneling through ssh:
ssh wotan.hajhouse.org cat .vnc/passwd > .vnc/passwd ssh -CNf wotan.hajhouse.org -L 5902:wotan.hajhouse.org:5902 xtightvncviewer :2 -passwd .vnc/passwd \ -encodings 'copyrect tight hextile zlib corre rre raw' Surely there must be a more automatic way to set up the ssh tunnel and authenticate to the VNC server. I have looked at gnome-rdp and KDE's remote-desktop client, but neither has apparently any concept of vnc tunneled over ssh. In xtightvncviewer there is an option -via that appears to do what I want (setting up an ssh tunnel automatically), but my best effort at using it, sudo xtightvncviewer wotan.hajhouse.org:2 -via \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -passwd .vnc/passwd did not work (the process hung, no vnc window appeared). The sudo in the above was necessary to allow xtightvncviewer to bind to a privileged port, the need for which I fail to grasp. Has anybody used xtightvncviewer this way sucessfully? -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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