[KLUG Members] vnc over internet recommendations

[Miles Pschigoda]

Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> adam at morrison-ind.com (Adam Tauno Williams) writes:
> 
> 
>>Tunnel over SSH.
> 
> 
> You know I should be doing that on my home LAN too, now that WEP
> can be cracked in like 8 seconds or something.
> 
> Hey, pretend I'm an idiot, because I am.  I want to set up an ssh
> tunnel for VNC on both my server and my client.  What's the
> command to do that?
> 
> (I've done a mail tunnel on my home LAN using "stunnel" but
> there's a way to make "ssh" do the same thing, right?  I should
> learn how to do that.)

Ok, wow, I though it was port 5000, so I did a google search for "vnc 
port" and came up with this

http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/vnc.html

[and looking a bit deeper, this looks like a better one anyway:]
http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html

I'd download tightVNC as well, as I like it's compression:

http://www.tightvnc.com/

Dig in and have fun,
MilesP