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Using ssh with VNC Viewer
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- Subject: Using ssh with VNC Viewer
- From: "Keith Starsmeare" <keith_starsmeare at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:24:31 +0100
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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