: 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] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list