RE: Using ssh with VNC Viewer

["Michael Erdely" <cygwin@cygwin.com>]

Keith, 
  As Peter said, check out http://tech.erdelynet.com/sshvnc.asp (Hi,
Chris... I still haven't had time for much other than work and school).
  The thing's you have to look at are:
    - If edin_kampala is your ssh & vnc server, you'll have to
AllowLoopback on edin_kampala since VNC will "see" the connection coming
from the ssh server.
    - Is the VNC Server really listening on 5901?  If so, then that
should work.  Check out VNC's web pages (using the URL you posted) and
look for the documentation specific to the VNC Server you're running
(you didn't specify).  Also look at
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html .

Good luck,
-ME

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
[ mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com ] On Behalf Of Keith Starsmeare
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:25 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Using ssh with VNC Viewer


I've recently started using AT&T's windows based VNC viewer
( http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc ) and I'm trying to use it with
cygwin's
ssh.

I use this command to open the ssh to the remote machine and listen on
the
ports documented.

    ssh -v -C -L 5902:edin_kampala:5901 edin_kampala

then I open the vncviewer:

    vncviewer localhost:2

and I get the debug output (because of the -v on the ssh line)

    debug1: Connection to port 5902 forwarding to edin_kampala port 5901
requested.
    debug1: fd 8 setting O_NONBLOCK
    debug1: fd 8 IS O_NONBLOCK
    debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
    debug1: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 32768 rmax 16384

so something's working. But I don't get the vncviewer's prompt for a
password.

Has anyone else tried this and got it working? I found one thread
recently,
but I couldn't follow it and I wasn't sure if they were using a windows
or
cygwin-xfree based vncviewer. I don't really need to use the ssh, but as
I'm
all ready connected to the machine using ssh, I thought why not use it
for
the vncviewer too!

Regards

Keith


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