Problem with SSH and the java VNC viewer

[William Hooper]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Barrett" <a.r.w.barrett "at" ic.ac.uk>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with SSH and the java VNC viewer


> ok I've solved one problem only to be hit with two more!  I'm running
> Windows 98 on my home laptop and using it to connect via SSH to a win2000
> server at college. The machine I'm trying to connect to runs WinVNC on
> Windows 2000 and not the one running SSH.
>
> The reason for the error: Local loop-back connections are disabled is
> because TightVNC server is always running on my laptop! I never set it up
to
> do this and because it's windows 98, the TightVNC server icon does not
> appear on the task bar.  In fact there is no way of knowing that it is
> running unless you actually try and start another server session running.
It
> doesnt even show up in the Close Progam dialog box when you do
CRTL+ALT+DEL.
>
> So my first question is how do I stop the TightVNC server running
> automatically on my laptop every time Windows starts? I can only kill it
> because I have a utility called EndItAll (from
> http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/ if anyones interested)
which
> shows all the hidden processes on windows.
>
> If I do kill the laptop VNC server then it doesn't solve the java + SSH
> problem, but it does mean I get a different message:
>     Network error: could not connect to server: localhost:5900
>
> Second question: Anyone know a way round this?
>
> thanks for your help
> Adrian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Barrett" <a.r.w.barrett "at" ic.ac.uk>
> To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem with SSH and the java VNC viewer
>
>
> > I'm posting this again cos I didn't get a response last time.  Hopefully
> > someone out there can help!! I've seen this problem asked before in the
> > mailing list archives but haven't seen an answer.
> > thanks
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm trying to set up Tight VNC with SSH and I'm running into some
problems
> > with the java viewer.
> >
> > I can :
> >     Use the java viewer to connect directly to the VNC server on
> > http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5800
> >     Use the VNC viewer to connect to the VNC server thorugh SSH on
> > localhost:1
> >     Get the java login screen for the VNC server through SSH on
> > http://localhost:5801
> >
> > But, when I put in my password on the java login with SSH, I get the
> > following
> > error message:
> >     Error: Local loop-back connections are disabled
> >
> > I have set up SSH to tunnel localhost:5901 to vnc server:5900, and
> > localhost:5801 to vnc server:5800.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Adrian Barrett
> >

Sorry for not snipping, but I wanted all of this visible...

You first said that you were using http://localhost:5801 to connect to the
SSH tunneled session, so a local VNC running on 5800 will not cause any
problems.  Have you set the VNC Server to allow loopback connections?  When
using SSH the connection looks like it comes from the SSH server, so if VNC
and the SSH server are the same machine it is a loopback connection.

You probably need to run the "Service Helper" app in order to control the
local VNC server on your Win98 machine.

--
William Hooper

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