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Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
- To: karlm30 at hotmail dot com, fred at ontosys dot com, Lesley dot D dot Lahman at medstar dot net
- Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
- From: "Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:56:11 -0700
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Hi All...
OOPS! it is AllowLoopback for the value name, not ConnectPriority.
AllowLoopback will let the vnc server accept a connection from
itself...otherwise it blocks the connection. ConnectPriority allose a single
or multiple connections at once (two way connections).
Thanks,
...Karl
>From: "Karl M" <karlm30@hotmail.com>
>To: fred@ontosys.com, Lesley.D.Lahman@medstar.net
>CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:07:00 -0700
>
>Hi All...
>
>I use
>
>ssh -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 myserver sleep 30
>
>from a Windows 2000 client (or Windows NT 4), so that the port will
>automatically close down when I'm done. And the -f lets me put the launch
>of
>the tunnel and the vncviewer in the same script file.
>
>When you do a "loopback" connection on your server...have you modified the
>registry to allow this? The value is called ConnectPriority in the WINVNC3
>key I think.
>
>Thanks,
>
>...Karl
>
>
>
>>From: fred@ontosys.com
>>To: Lesley.D.Lahman@medstar.net
>>CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
>>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:13:36 -0500
>>
>>On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:12:05PM -0400, Lesley.D.Lahman@medstar.net
>>wrote:
>> > When on my_workstation I start ssh like this:
>> > 'ssh -L 5901:my_server:5900 my_server'
>> > port 5900 on my_server then supposedly is forwarded to
>> > port 5901 on my_workstation, which corresponds to display 1.
>>
>>Doesn't that actually forward my_workstation:5901 to my_server:5900,
>>given the sense of "forward" usually used with ssh?
>>
>>Have you tried 'ssh -L 5901:my_server:5901 my_server'? That way when
>>'vncviewer my_workstation:1' tries to connect to port 5901 on
>>my_workstation it will end up communicating with port 5901 on the
>>my_server.
>>
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