[KLUG Members] VNC through SSH tunnel or VPN

[Mike Williams]

From: bill <billtron at billtronservices.com>

>A situation occured where I had two options, either would work and I'm
>wondering which is better.
>
>I'm at a remote location and want to use VNC (remotely work on a
>computer) on a box inside a LAN.  
>
>At my remote location, I can either use VPN and then VNC to the box as
>if I was on the LAN, or I could set up a SSH tunnel and then VNC
>localhost:xxx (where xxx is the port number set in the tunnel).
>
>Which is better?
>Which is more secure?
>
>Would either be faster?
>
>Recommendations, preferences?
>
>
>  
>
I'd say it depends on how persistent a connection we're talking about, 
and whether you want to tunnel anything else.  VPN is more flexible, 
especially if you're trying to connect two networks rather than two 
machines, but for a single machine and a single service, ssh is likely 
easier.