At 09:14 AM 2/16/2003, Tony Aluknavich wrote:
You are effectively trying to sweep the floor with a flashlight. That is, what you describe will never work, nor is it even along the lines of what will work, even if it is (at some level) vaguely similar to what would work.Hi all:I have TightVNC working between work (XP Box) and home (XO Box). My home machine is behind a Linksys router and I have No-IP_DUC as my dynamic IP host. At work we have a router with open ports behind a hardware firewall. I can use the VNC Viewers to see both machines with no problem. I installed Putty to try to use the ssh feature. When I try to connect to my home machine using ssh through port 59xx (my open port), I seem to have a session connected but all I see is a black screen with a small green block that is to the left side of the screen. Nothing happens beyond that. When I go to close the screen, Putty asks me if I want to close this open session. Does anybody have and experience with this situation? Am I missing something with the Putty setup? Thanks in advance for your help!
The basic way that putty would be used to securely access VNC is as follows. You use putty to ssh (on port 22, the standard port for ssh) to the machine running the ssh server. You tell putty to forward packets over the ssh connection ("tunneling" them). You connect vncviewer to your local machien (where you ran putty), and it connects over putty/ssh to the remote machine.
It's not at all a "point-and-click" solution, so you'll need to do some reading, etc. before you'll be able to implement it. Cygwin is the only free ssh server for windows that I know of.
Links:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/499
http://www.ece.ogi.edu/help/SSH.html
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ssh/
http://www.cygwin.com/
HTH,
Jordan
P.S. Now you see why other people want encryption built into vnc. :) I think they should just link with the ssl libraries, or, at worst, provide a means for using stunnel to wrap the connection.
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