Using ssh with VNC Viewer
Peter Buckley
peter.buckley@cportcorp.com
Tue Sep 25 06:30:00 GMT 2001
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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