Gateway is the localhost and 12345 is the localhost port I need to have forwarded to the remote computer port 5900.
________________________________ From: Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro [mailto:waldi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:24 AM To: James Hinchey Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNC Via ssh tunnel Hello guys James, when you put /and connect to "vncviewer gateway:12345"/, gateway in this case is your remote IP or localhost IP ?!?!, the correct is a localhost IP, where you are creating the tunnel. Cheers On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:34 AM, James Hinchey <james.hinc...@adacel.com> wrote: Hello, I am having difficulty establishing vnc connections via an ssh tunnel. We have a series of independent LANs, each one has one computer with an interface to the wider network. I need to be able to VNC through this gateway computer to any other computer on the internal network. I have been attempting to do this using an ssh tunnel, but it doesn't always work. I first establish the tunnel on the gateway machine with: /usr/bin/ssh -L localport:remoteIP:5900 localhost sleep 60 to allow the tunnel to expose a unique port for each computer inside the network and attempt to connect to that port with vncviewer. So if I want to make a VNC connection to 192.168.103.12, I would set up the tunnel /usr/bin/ssh -L 12345:192.168.103.12:5900 localhost sleep 60 and connect to "vncviewer gateway:12345" This seems to work about 50% of the time. The rest of the time I get main: unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111) It is more likely to connect when running realvnc from windows than linux, but still not 100% of the time. Has anyone done anything similar? Am I missing something very obvious here? Thanks for your help James _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list -- ______________ Atenciosamente Waldirio msn: waldi...@gmail.com Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
