On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:22:19AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: > On Monday, 21 Jun 2004 00:33, David Fokkema wrote: > > Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on > > windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The > > problem is that I can't just install a Cygwin environment or something > > like that. > > Why not? What can you install, if anything?
Well, a program or two neatly placed in a folder with my name. No registry links, please. And that's because it's not my machine. > I personally have my parents SSH into my box using Putty (because their ISP > does not allow incoming TCP connections to be established) and tunnel VNC > through that so I can administer their poor Windows computers 13,450 km away > and put more free software on them. The compression of SSH is even said to > make this faster than unencrypted VNC. > > It's not quite clear from your question what you wish to do and what your > constraints are, but putty, tunnel, and vnc would be good things to feed > Google. I did now, thanks! Now I know how to connect vnc to putty, which connects to my machine, :-) David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
