NT Server, ME client, ssh tunnel with Putty (was: Win2000 VNC server over SSH0

[Jerry Westrick]

Victor:

You need to save the settings...
This is a bit NON intuitive in putty...
The way I do (using putty 5.3) it is as follows:

1) Under seesion I enter the Host name, I the enter the name of the
seesion and press save...  The new session name apears in the list...
--- or ---
1) I click on the seesion I want ot modify and press load...

2) I configure/change all of the features (inlcuding port forwarding)...

3) I go back to the session screen and save the seesion... 

4) Finaly I can start the session, by pressing the OPEN button...

BTW you can start putty from the command line with the command:
putty -load "session name",  Which I have as a short-cut in my remote
connections...


As to weither you should use putty, or a command-line... 

IHO, I think the tight-vnc people got it right, namely the additional
vnc parameter "-via [<user>@]host"...  this tells vnc to start the ssh
tunnel itself.

As second best I find putty, since I can easily setup multiple tunnels
using it's GUI, and then start them all together.  In this form I have a
"Host_XXX Connect" shortcut, which I start before I work with/on a host
and shutdown afterwards...

Hope that helps...
Jerry




On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 16:12, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I have the same kind of issues as Damon below, but in a different context.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Timothy J. Warren wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:40, Damon McMahon wrote:
> > > My configuration: Windows 2000 Professional SP3 with RealVNC 3.3.5 and 
> > > NetworkSimplity OpenSSH 3.4p1, both installed as services.
> 
> Mine: 
> 
> NT VNC server, RealVNC 3.3.5, sshd v1.0.2 from 
> http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SSHD-NT/default.php
> (Also have vncserver 3.3.4 on RH7.1 linux test box)
> 
> Client Windows ME, Putty ssh client 0.53b (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk) ,
> RealVNC 3.3.5 client
> 
> > > VNC server runs successfully when viewed over a direct ethernet connection 
> 
> same here
> 
> > > SSH server runs successfully when a simply login connection is established 
> > > using:
> > > 
> > > ssh <Win2Khost>
> 
> Similar, can ssh to the NT box with PuTTY from the ME.
> 
> > > However, I cannot get port forwarding to work with sshd<->vncserver. I run:
> 
> Being on ME I don't have the commandline ssh. Putty has a dialog for
> port forwarding setup, where I ask for the equivalent 
> L 5901:localhost:5900 to try and set up to the NT box, or 
> L 5902:localhost:5901 to try to tunnel to the Linux box.
> 
> Just once or twice I have seen successful 'forwarding from port 5902
> to localhost:5901' (or ..1 to ..0) messages in the putty Event log. On
> those occasions VNC worked. Then afer exit, do exactly the same ssh
> tunnel setup and no port forwarding is set up.
> 
> I appreciate that this is more a PuTTY problem than a VNC one - but
> has anyone else experienced it?
> 
> Alternatively I wonder if I might be better off finding a way to run
> ssh direct from a commandline on the ME box - is there a good source
> for that somewhere?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Victor Churchill, Bournemouth, UK
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