SSH and RealVNC4

[William Hooper]

0067881-0005 said:

> I am using RealVNC Server 4 (service mode) on Windows 2000 Professional
> SP4.
> I have installed Cygwin as an SSH service on this box.  I set RealVNC
> Server
> access control options to 'only accept connections from local machine',
> but I cannot access the RealVNC server on the machine using PuTTY .56 SSH
> client from my Windows XP Pro laptop.

What is your putty setup?  How are you telling it to forward ports?

> There are events showing connection and
> authentication with sshd but nothing for WinVNC4 unless I take SSH out of
> the equation.  I think the RealVNC server isn't even getting the
> connection attempt.  Maybe I have missed a step in configuration of SSH.

Sounds like an SSH issue.

> The only way I can connect to the server using SSH is if I
> disable the 'only accept connections from local machine' and add the IP
> address 127.0.0.1 to the access control list on the RealVNC server.

127.0.0.1 is localhost.

> This
> of course makes using the SSH tunnel pointless, since the tunnel is not
> required to connect.

Huh?

> I am behind a
> Linksys
> router with port forwarding enabled for TCP ports 22 (SSH), 5800 & 5900
> (RealVNC) to my server's IP address.

Port 22 is all you need if you want to use SSH tunneling.

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William Hooper