Re: VNC + SSH question..

From: Garrett Cooper (youshi10_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: 08/31/05

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To: Eric Murphy <eam404@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>

    On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Eric Murphy wrote:

    > Hey guys had a SSH forward question so here goes...
    >
    >
    > I have 2 computers on my lan one of them is a server and the other
    > is my desktop.
    >
    > Desktop 192.168.1.104
    > Server 192.168.1.103
    >
    > Now I have port forwarding setup on my crappy linksys router so 22
    > is pointing to my Server (192.168.1.103)
    >
    > My question is this...
    >
    >
    > I would like to tightVNC to my Desktop (192.168.1.104) forwarding
    > it through SSH. Now from what I understand If my router was
    > pointing to my desktop this would not be a problem at all. All I
    > would have to do is SSH to my IP while forwarding 22 to 5900.
    > However I cant do it this way since 22 is pointing to my server.
    > So I figured I would ssh into my server and issue a command such as
    > ssh 192.168.1.103 -L22:192.168.1.104:5900 however once im in and I
    > run vncview it obivoiusly can be displayed becuase Im not running X
    > on the server. Am I way off here? Is there a way to do this? Will
    > I need to forward 22 on my router to the desktop as well as server?
    > Is there a way to connect to my server thats not running X and some
    > how vnc into my desktop?
    >
    > On the remote machines I'd be useing PuTTY for windows and SSH on
    > Linux box's. Prehaps someone can give me a step by step guide?
    >
    >
    > Thanks.

    To my knowledge TightVNC doesn't support access to X via the :0'th
    display. That may be your problem and not your port forwarding setup,
    because it appears-at least to me-that it is correct. So, try a
    different display or if you want access via display :0 try x11vnc.
    Note that it may be considered more of a security issue since it
    would connect directly to your desktop's display.
    -Garrett
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