How to run VNC thru ssh (openssh question)

["Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze dot com>]

>I used to use the following all the time to access my Windows machine
>remotely:

>ssh -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 -N -C -o Compression=yes -o
>CompressionLevel=9 
><machine name or ip>
>vncviewer &

>YMMV.

>Obviously, you need to make sure that the port ssh is using is open
>through any firewall.

>None of this is really Cygwin-specific so further discussion on this l
>list along this line is really off-topic though.

Hmmmm... I hope that is not true. I hope this is on topic because I think it
is an issue with installing ssh. I get the following error when I try the
command above:

No matching comp found: client zlib server none,zlib@openssh.com

I tried leaving off the -o and compression flags, but this did not help. I
got the same error until I removed the -C and then it did not even give me
an error message (and still did not work).

Thanks,
Siegfried


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