From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 01:24:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCFE16A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:24:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1D043D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:24:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j7V1Okl8012676 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:24:46 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.11.6] (YahooBB219010032025.bbtec.net [219.10.32.25]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j7V1OiUc026617 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:24:45 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <4314F82D.6090607@earthlink.net> References: <4314F82D.6090607@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4269945B-9ABA-4210-B5E7-6E15A5CCAB0E@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:25:31 +0900 To: Eric Murphy , FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: Subject: Re: VNC + SSH question.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:24:49 -0000 On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Eric Murphy wrote: > Hey guys had a SSH forward question so here goes... > > > I have 2 computers on my lan one of them is a server and the other > is my desktop. > > Desktop 192.168.1.104 > Server 192.168.1.103 > > Now I have port forwarding setup on my crappy linksys router so 22 > is pointing to my Server (192.168.1.103) > > My question is this... > > > I would like to tightVNC to my Desktop (192.168.1.104) forwarding > it through SSH. Now from what I understand If my router was > pointing to my desktop this would not be a problem at all. All I > would have to do is SSH to my IP while forwarding 22 to 5900. > However I cant do it this way since 22 is pointing to my server. > So I figured I would ssh into my server and issue a command such as > ssh 192.168.1.103 -L22:192.168.1.104:5900 however once im in and I > run vncview it obivoiusly can be displayed becuase Im not running X > on the server. Am I way off here? Is there a way to do this? Will > I need to forward 22 on my router to the desktop as well as server? > Is there a way to connect to my server thats not running X and some > how vnc into my desktop? > > On the remote machines I'd be useing PuTTY for windows and SSH on > Linux box's. Prehaps someone can give me a step by step guide? > > > Thanks. To my knowledge TightVNC doesn't support access to X via the :0'th display. That may be your problem and not your port forwarding setup, because it appears-at least to me-that it is correct. So, try a different display or if you want access via display :0 try x11vnc. Note that it may be considered more of a security issue since it would connect directly to your desktop's display. -Garrett