Tunneling VNC over ssh

Setup:

I regularly connect from a Windows XP box to a SunOs 5.9 box.(*) via Real
VNC. (VNC client lives on Windows XP box, server on SunOs box.)

I also regularly connect from the same Windows XP box to the same SunOs box
via ssh. (Using the PuTTY client.)

Now I want to tunnel the VNC over SSH. I repeated tried following the
instructions on setting up PuTTY to do this and never got it to work.

To put things concretely, suppose the SunOs host is called solaris1 and I'm
trying to connect to VNC desktop :3 there. I should use
X display location == localhost:0
and
source port == 5903
and
destination == localhost:5903
under the PuTTY tunnelling section, right?














(*) Yes, it's not Linux, but I cross-posted to comp.os.linux.networking as
this problem shouldn't be solaris-dependent, and groups.google.com showed a
very high relevance to the keywords "vnc" and "ssh". [Gotta Linux box at
home, though.]

sinister wrote:

> Setup:
>
> I regularly connect from a Windows XP box to a SunOs 5.9 box.(*) via Real
> VNC. (VNC client lives on Windows XP box, server on SunOs box.)
>
> I also regularly connect from the same Windows XP box to the same SunOs
> box
> via ssh. (Using the PuTTY client.)
>
> Now I want to tunnel the VNC over SSH. I repeated tried following the
> instructions on setting up PuTTY to do this and never got it to work.

If I rememeber correctly, SSH's TCP-forwarding (AllowTcpForwarding no) is
disabled by default in SunOs 5.9.

So, check SSH's TCP-forwarding settings from /etc/ssh/sshd_config, your
putty settings should be okay.

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto

sinister wrote:
> Setup:
>
> I regularly connect from a Windows XP box to a SunOs 5.9 box.(*) via Real
> VNC. (VNC client lives on Windows XP box, server on SunOs box.)
>
> I also regularly connect from the same Windows XP box to the same SunOs box
> via ssh. (Using the PuTTY client.)
>
> Now I want to tunnel the VNC over SSH. I repeated tried following the
> instructions on setting up PuTTY to do this and never got it to work.
>
> To put things concretely, suppose the SunOs host is called solaris1 and I'm
> trying to connect to VNC desktop :3 there. I should use
> X display location == localhost:0
> and
> source port == 5903
> and
> destination == localhost:5903
> under the PuTTY tunnelling section, right?
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> (*) Yes, it's not Linux, but I cross-posted to comp.os.linux.networking as
> this problem shouldn't be solaris-dependent, and groups.google.com showed a
> very high relevance to the keywords "vnc" and "ssh". [Gotta Linux box at
> home, though.]
>
>

im not sure how your vnc settings are as I use tight vnc, but I can tell
you this is how i connect.

1. start putty and in putty i have in the tunnel page
source port: 5900
destination: 192.168.0.202:5900

this 192 address is the address of my linux box from WITHIN the ssh
session. I have a nat router at home, so putty is connecting to the
TRUE home IP address, but on this tunnel page it needs the actual
address of the computer, so that is why you see this address. If you
not natting, its probably the same for both.

that is for channel 0

add a new tunnel for channel 1, 5901 and 192.168.0.202:5901, etc...


and in tight vnc i have
localhost:0 as my vnc target.

hope that helps. Also, I dont think vnc is doing anything with X. Its
not like when you open a tunneled desktop from one linux box to another.

Also, you need a vncserver running. is your server on by default, or
are you starting it through your ssh session? not sure if it makes a
diff, but i start mine through an ssh session, but i let it run ever
after i am off so it can keep gettign my emails. Im typing in it right
now...



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