Thanks much for all you help I really appreciate it. Finally found the
problem. The port that VNC was accessing was disabled. Chalk this one down
to a "Brain Burp" on my part. Many thanks again.
Charles.
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From: "Darren Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: secure vnc
> Thanks for the reply Harmen. I was hoping mindterm and a java vnc
> client would do wonders, i had quite high expectations for finding
> a good working solution.
>
> Has anyone updated mindvnc since mindbright have stopped
> supporting/developing it? I don't fully understand how it works
> yet.
>
> Is there any documentation on using mindvnc, since Mindbright
> have taken it down?
>
> thanks
> Darren
>
> At 07:15 08/04/01 +0200, Harmen van der Wal wrote:
> >Darren Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > First let me say, i'm aware of Mindbright's Mindvnc which is no longer
> > > supported.
> >
> >Yes, but they seem to be planning a SSH (& SSL) API, so rolling your own
> >secure Java VNC viewer will be easy. (SSH-->RFB / SSL-->RFB)
> >
> > >
> > > I want to run a java vnc client securely from any machine, even those
> > > annoyingly
> > > restricted internet cafe's and ADSL which is NAT'ed and run java vnc
client
> > > through ssh to a static ip Linux server running vncserver.
> >
> >Well I guess that will be a problem, because in strict-security
> >environments you may not be able to grant an applet permission to
> >connect to a local proxy. And allthough Java allows for HTTP tunneling
> >restricted applets also, the tunneling technique has too much overhead
> >for something noisy like VNC (HTTP-->RFB).
> >
> > >
> > > Can/will this work, or is the solution to use ssl/java vnc client?
> >
> >If you're talking about HTTPS tunneling (SSL-->HTTP-->RFB) I had thought
> >this was the solution to two problems:
> >1) A restricted Java applet could connect out using a http/security
> >proxy, and the proxy would just have to handle 1 CONNECT request for as
> >long as the ssl/http connection was persistent.
> >2) The connection would be secure.
> >
> >I was very dissapointed when I tried this, and found the browser will do
> >a CONNECT request for each HTTP request.
> >
> > > I've done some hunting around the web which mostly talks about using
> > > local ssh forwarding.
> > >
> > > Can this work with 2 applets, one doing local ssh forwarding,
> > > and another running the java vnc client?
> ><...>
> >
> >I suggest you wait for the MindTerm SSH-API, and maybe use MindVNC until
> >then.
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