vnc/ssh/putty

[B. Scott Smith]

Only if you are connecting to "localhost:1", which is the secured local 
port being forwarded.

Adam Walker wrote:

> I am trying to enable vnc over ssh.  I'm going from my machine at work 
> (XP) to my home machine (Fedora Core 2).  I have a D-Link router 
> behind my cable modem.  I can open a port (5901) on my router and use 
> vnc alone, which I know isn't secure.  I opened port 22 on my router 
> to enable ssh.  I can ssh to my box at home.  I am using putty to 
> ssh.  I enabled a tunnel to forward 5901 from work to remote port 5901 
> at home.  I can open the ssh session in putty, and I can connect using 
> vnc.  And now the main part of my question.......Is my vnc viewer 
> session secured over ssh?
>
> Thank you
> Adam
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