Re: Confused about tightvnc and ssh tunnel

From: james hal-pc.org (at)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:37:04 -0600

Brent Bolin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Recently installed tightvnc on fbsd4.9 . Incredible fast network
> connection to fluxbox from an win2k/pro workstation. Previously using
> cygwin via ssh.
>
> How do I tunnel vnc connection through ssh ?
>
> Reading through documentation it appears it can be done with putty or
> ssh from the cygwin distribution.
>
> Something like this from the cygwin shell
>
> ssh -l username destination.ip -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900
>
> From a windoze dos prompt netstat -an
>
> I can see 0.0.0.0:5900 LISTENING but not ESTABLISHED
>
> How can I tell if tightvnc is tunneling through ssh ?
>
> Is there an option on the fbsd side to tell Xvnc to allways use ssh
> tunneling ?
>
> btb

try to establish the tunnel on a different port from what vnc would
normally use. then when you run vncviewer use:
vncviewer localhost::PORT#
if it works then you know it's being tunneled. 

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