: 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. 

Note that the unix/linux tightVNC client has -via, which makes use
of ssh encryption more nearly point-and-click-ish.  It occurs to me that
a cygwin ssh client and vnc client could implement -via, and then a
clickable icon could be set up to do the whole connection in one
swell foop.

Anybody know of a cygwin-based vncviewer?
Or whether it's really as feasible as I suppose it is?
Or, for that matter, whether a -via feature could use putty
instead of cygwin openSSH?


Wayne Throop   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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