Listening viewer over an SSH tunnel

[Rauf Dean]

Port 5500 ??

I've set up the SSH connection to tunnel port 5900 on source and 
destination...

Do I need to open second tunnel on a different port?

Rauf



William Hooper wrote:
> Rauf Dean wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I am trying to set up a system for supporting a client who has a
>>firewall that wil not accept incoming connections.
>>
>>So, from one of the client's pc's I set up an SSH tunnel back to my home
>>Linux server. I can VNC now from the client pc to a windows box on my
>>home network using "localhost" as the destination IP address. However I
>>need to go the other way...
>>
>>The same client PC is also running a VNC server, so I run a listening
>>viewer on the same windows box on my home network. I choose "Add new
>>client" on the client pc and add "localhost" as the address, and...
>>nothing happens on my home PC.
> 
> 
> Do you have the correct port forwarding for the listening viewer port
> (starting at 5500)?