Is this Putty SSH client configured ok?

William Hooper whooper "at" freeshell.org
Tue Mar 9 13:16:01 2004


Johan Eriksson said:
> If I open up the router at work for incoming on port
> 5900 and outgoing on 5900 (No displaynr in VNC
> configured) so that I can connect to my workcomputer
> from home, and want to use Putty SSH:

If you are using SSH there is no point in setting up port forwarding on
your router for the VNC port.

> Should Tunnelconfiguration in Puttyclient be like:
>
> Source port: 5900
> Destination: localhost:5900    ??

Assuming your VNC server is the same machine as your SSH server, yes.

-- 
William Hooper