VNC with ssh tunneling problem.
 

I am using mindterm as my ssh client running on my laptop and runing vncserver on my home linux box. When I run ssh client from work weird thing happens. It basically freezes after bringin up the window that says "please - wait initial screen loading" after vnc authentication. Both the ssh client window and the vnc window will not resopnd after this. The ssh client connected to my linux box at home works fine all day long as long as I don't bring up the vncviewer and try to connect to my linux box with it. As soon as I bring up vncviewer it freezes after vnc authentication.

Now the funny thing is that when I use my same laptop from home (on home network ) everything works just fine without any problem. I can bring up the vncviewer just fine with ssh tunneling. I dont do anything different in bringing up the vncviewer from work or home. Yet, it woks from home network and not the work. It is the exact same setting, no difference at all.

My linksys router at home has only one port forwarded to linux box and that is sshd(22). All other ports are blocked from router.

Does anyone know what's going on here.

ps: I have used different client software ( mindterm, securecrt, putty) to see if the problem was related to client software. it's not. they all do the exact same thing.

Mindterm config file settings
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#MindTerm ssh settings
#Fri Feb 01 08:55:19 EST 2002
alive=0
mac-algorithms-srv2cli=hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96,hmac-ripemd160
local-echo=false
force-pty=true
stricthostid=false
comp-algorithms-srv2cli=zlib
enc-algorithms-cli2srv=aes128-cbc,blowfish-cbc,twofish128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,twofish-cbc,cast128-cbc,3des-cbc,arcfour
term-type=linux
username=spatemp
geometry=79x21
local-bind=127.0.0.1
fg-color=i_white
server-host-key-algorithms=ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
port=22
mac-algorithms-cli2srv=hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96,hmac-ripemd160
protocol=auto
private-key=identity
visible-cursor=true
auth-method=password
server=linuxbox.dnsart.com
ssh1-cipher=blowfish-cbc
display=localhost\:0
bg-color=68,128,128
enc-algorithms-srv2cli=aes128-cbc,blowfish-cbc,twofish128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,twofish-cbc,cast128-cbc,3des-cbc,arcfour
local2=/general/3456\:p500\:80
paste-button=right
local1=/general/5801\:p500\:5801
local-pgkeys=false
local0=/general/5901\:p500\:5901
x11-forward=true
compression=9
comp-algorithms-cli2srv=zlib
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Thanks for all the help
spatemp

I forgot to mention one important thing and that is the ssh client is forwarding the vnc 5901 port to home linux box. Basically vnc is tunneling through the ssh. Also, the linux box at home is running suse linux. I am still having this problem and can not make out anything. Thanks for any suggestion.