Re: Using ssh with VNC Viewer

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

Check out http://tech.erdelynet.com

Mike has a good page about SSH and Cygwin, 
and he has a mailing list too. The mailing 
list has searchable archives, and I remember 
seeing some VNC and SSH related messages lately. 

HTH,
Peter

Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> 
> I've recently started using AT&T's windows based VNC viewer
> (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc) and I'm trying to use it with cygwin's
> ssh.
> 
> I use this command to open the ssh to the remote machine and listen on the
> ports documented.
> 
>     ssh -v -C -L 5902:edin_kampala:5901 edin_kampala
> 
> then I open the vncviewer:
> 
>     vncviewer localhost:2
> 
> and I get the debug output (because of the -v on the ssh line)
> 
>     debug1: Connection to port 5902 forwarding to edin_kampala port 5901
> requested.
>     debug1: fd 8 setting O_NONBLOCK
>     debug1: fd 8 IS O_NONBLOCK
>     debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
>     debug1: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 32768 rmax 16384
> 
> so something's working. But I don't get the vncviewer's prompt for a
> password.
> 
> Has anyone else tried this and got it working? I found one thread recently,
> but I couldn't follow it and I wasn't sure if they were using a windows or
> cygwin-xfree based vncviewer. I don't really need to use the ssh, but as I'm
> all ready connected to the machine using ssh, I thought why not use it for
> the vncviewer too!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Keith
> 
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