Using VNC (More) Securely...

[Robin Hill]

On Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 12:55:54PM -0500, Peter Bunn wrote:

> Continuing the saga...
>
> In a response to this thread, Lincoln Baxter recommended using SSH to
> 'tunnel' VNC connections, and I have been struggling to make it work.
> Off list, he has been of great help, and I've made a simple SSH
> connection, but cannot figure out how to run VNC over the connection.
>
> The target computer is on Windows XP Home SP1, and now has CopSSH (an
> OpenSSH package) installed.  I'm on a Mac using 10.4.11 and the
> 'Terminal' application to set up the tunnel.  All VNC software is
> RealVNC... and current.
>
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All looks okay so far.  Have you enabled loopback connections in VNC?
By default the VNC server will not accept connections on the loopback
(127.0.0.1) address.  There should be an option in the server config to
enable loopback connections (I'm not running RealVNC here so I can't
tell you exactly what/where it is).

Cheers,
    Robin
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