[KLUG Members] Secure VNC

[Bob Kanaley]

Andrew,

Contrary to what the VNC docs make you think, you don't have to have a linux
server running SSHd to go between a windows server and windows clients.

I don't do it often, but on my LAN, I have used VNC over SSH port forwarding
tunnels directly between two windblows clients.

The documentation on the VNC site is good for concepts, but it is usually
very old and out of date. These days most firewalls have port forwarding
capabilities so you don't have to have sshd running on the firewall to do
the port forwarding for you as described in the VNC examples.

Since SSH came out of the Unix world, the examples on the VNC web site
presume you can't run SSH and SSHd directly on windows boxen. Now, Cygwin
allows you to setup Linux services such as SSHd to run on windows servers
and there are some very good SSH clients for windows.

Since the details are all windows related, I will email you directly on how
I do this.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com


"Richard Harding" <rick@ricksweb.info> wrote in message
news:mailman.1074605647.32370.members@kalamazoolinux.org...
> You could look at forcing the TS connections through a VPN tunnel.
> Setting up either a hardware device or using a small linux distro such
> as smoothwall etc, that allows VPN connections might be another approach.
>
> Rick
>
> Andrew Eidson wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the links.. but by what I am reading.. I would need atleast
one
> > linux server running SSHD to go between a windows server and windows
> > client.. I am not sure this is a viable option for the majority of our
> > clients that would be using this.. Currently we are using Terminal
Services
> > for this but that is just as unsecure as using an open VNC connection.
Any
> > suggestions on other software that is economical for cash strapped
schools??
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
> > [mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Bill Katsma
> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:45 PM
> > To: KLUG
> > Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Secure VNC
> >
> >
> > Try looking here
> >
> > http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html
> > and
> > http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshwin.html
> >
> > Then ask if you need more info.
> >
> > Later <><
> > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:32, Andrew Eidson wrote:
> >
> >>I am currently trying to find a way to make a secure VNC connection to
use
> >>across the internet.. the problem is that the client I am working with
has
> >>Windows servers they want to connect to.  I would assume they would set
up
> >>SSH .. but I am having problems finding decent documentation for setting
> >>this up and was wondering if anyone had any idea where I can find this?
> >>
> >>Andrew Eidson
> >>Support Analyst
> >>Midwest Educational Group
> >>1-888-416-4333
> >