[KLUG Members] RE: vnc and ssh tunneling...

[Mark Bystry]

ahhh...no, to answer your question. once of the things that i wanted to do was to try cain and abel 
to see if it picked up anything.

you just taught me something though...desktop sharing in linux. never tried it before now, thanks to 
you. it's definitely an alternative to starting the vncserver and connecting with tightvnc. i 
connected through my browser and it works fairly well, i must say.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Robert V. Kanaley wrote the following on 2/15/2006 2:31 PM:
> Mark,
> 
> Just 'cause I am a suspenders and belt kinda admin, I have to ask. Did you
> do a port scan from work to make sure that when you manually started up the
> VNC server on your home machine that your firewall at home was blocking the
> listening VNC ports at 58XX and 59XX?
> 
> SSH tunneling works great to secure VNC connections, but for any machines
> exposed to the Internet, you have to be sure to use the firewall to restrict
> access to the VNC ports to localhost, via your SSH tunnel, only.
> 
> Incidentally, if you want to remotely connect to your running X desktop at
> home instead of having to startup a second X desktop with Xvnc (VNC Server),
> I presume you can do the same thing in SuSE 10 that I do in SuSE 9. I use
> the SuSE Control Center, Internet and Network, Desktop Sharing applet to
> configure desktop sharing so that you can connect to your running desktop at
> home using just a password. By default, Desktop Sharing requires local
> confirmation in addition to the password, before a remote host is allowed to
> connect to the running desktop. If you are securely logging in to your home
> desktop from work, you wouldn't be at home to confirm that you want to allow
> the remote connection.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert V. Kanaley
> Manager Information Systems
> Agdia, Inc.
> rvk at agdia.com
> http://www.agdia.com
> 
> 
>> 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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