i got TightVNC working on my box using this HOWTO
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/
everything is working except for the last part, where the author explains how to use ssh tunnelling to add encryption to the TightVNC session
he says:
Quote:
You can/should use ssh (or other encryption) as tightvnc does not encrypt the connection (major security risk).
You can make a secure ssh tunnel for your vnc connection between client port 4961 and server port 5916:
ssh -C -L 4961:localhost:5961 my.dns-name.com
You will be asked for your home password. This makes an encrypted connection between my.dyndns-name.com:5961 and localhost:4961.
Add you@ in front of the domain (ssh -C -L 4961:localhost:5961 username@my.dns-name.com) to use a different username on the server.
Now, on the client, start a vncviewer and connect:
vncviewer -encodings "tight copyrect" -quality 3 localhost:4961
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i guess this just isn't verbose enough for me, as i'm still enough and have never used ssh beyond the basics of using it to get a command prompt on a remote server. what does the "ssh -C -L 4961:localhost:5961 my.dns-name.com" command do, and should i issue that on the client or server? what ports do i have to open on the VNC server? if the client in Windows, can this still be done, how? what port do i tell the client to connect to?
thanks,
~ Justin
