Ugh... feel free to ignore this note.
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 22:39, Michael Herron wrote: > Hello. > > I have a linux box at work and I want to be able to access this > machine from home. At home I have a cable modem in front of a router > that does NAT. One of the machines plugged into the router is a box > running w2k. > > I start vncserver on the linux box. I can then connect to this > machine without problems from the w2k box. vncserver runs on port 1 > of the linux box so I connect with vncviewer to snoopy:1 (going with > the snoopy theme) > > But, I want to tunnel through ssh. So, I do > > ssh -L 5902:snoopy:5901 snoopy > > from my w2k box. This works fine after I give a password. If I > understand this correctly, this tells the w2k box to link its port > 5902 to 5901 on snoopy. This is because 5901 on snoopy is where the > vncserver is running. > > But, I cannot seem to connect to this server. My ip address behind > the router is 192.168.1.101 so I try to get vncviewer to connect to > 192.168.1.101:2. I always get the message "Failed to Connect to > Server." > > Can anyone explain how to fix this? Do I have to enable some sort of > port forwarding behind the router? Right now no ports are forwarded. > > Thanks, > > michael > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
