[KLUG Members] vnc and ssh tunneling...

[Mark Bystry]

thanks scott. i got it working last night on my own, finally. see my post to bills email...

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Scott Webster Wood wrote the following on 2/14/2006 3:37 PM:
> check out:
> 
> http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/vnc.html
> 
> This is a rather complex scenario but gives you the basics.  My biggest thing
> is I always end up getting the LocalForward and RemoteForward backwards in my
> head.  Check out the ssh manpage and ssh_config manpage to learn how to build a
> ~/.ssh/config file for your target host.  (this tends to be a lot easier than
> constantly typing verbose command line arguements)
> 
> Basically it would just be a matter of doing a LocalForward for the VNC port(s)
> configured on the remote machine, then accessing VNC as though it were running
> directly on your the host initiating the ssh connection.  If you plan on using
> a different machine to create the tunnel than the one actually running the VNC
> client, be sure to check out the GatewayPorts option.
> 
> I've seen some comments that say it generally behaves better overall to specify
> 127.0.0.1 over 'localhost' when doing forwarding.  I haven't found any detailed
> comments over leaving it blank (which is generally assumed to do the same thing
> as specifying the local machine).  here's an example from my file which makes
> the MySQL port available 'only' on my laptop:
> 
> host myhost
>      Address          myhost.mydomain.linux
>      Port             9922
>      Compression      Yes
>      CompressionLevel 6
>      Username         myusername
>      ForwardX11       Yes
>      LocalForward     127.0.0.1:3306 127.0.0.1:9906
> 
> 
> this example will forward the MySQL port from the remote connection (on 3306)
> to port 9906 on the local machine only available from the loopback address.  It
> also takes care of setting up my alternate ssh port, forwarding the XWindows
> data, setting the username I prefer to use and the compression and
> compressionlevel.
> 
> SW
> 
> --- Mark Bystry <mabystry at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> need some help here.
>>
>> i have a suse 10.0 box running sshd (all the time on port 22) and vncserver
>> (manually started on 
>> occasion). i want to be able to vnc into my box at home from work (using my
>> windows xp workstation 
>> and tightvnc). i want to do this securely via ssh. what are the proper steps
>> to use ssh tunneling? 
>> and talk slowly if you know what i mean.
>>
>> thank-you
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark Bystry
>> SuSE 10.0
>> KDE 3.4.2
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