ssh tunnels and Xvnc - (yes, I know... What? not again!?)

[paul van den bergen]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:01 pm, Willie Viljoen wrote:
> > >from home you double tunnel:
> > >LOCALPORT=6333
> > >REMOTEPORT=5901
> > >ssh -t -L $LOCALPORT:localhost:12945 work1 \
> > >    ssh -L 12945:localhost:$REMOTEPORT work2
> >
> > As home is a W2k box, ssh won't probably work exactly like this...
> >
> > Putty supports a "don't allocate a pseudo-terminal" option to achieve
> > the effect of ssh's "-t" option. (Required, otherwise work1 will bark.)
>
> PuTTY is problematic though. There is a way to get it to work exactly like
> this. A Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 port of OpenSSH with an installer is at
> http://lexa.mckenna.edu/
>
> The port installs a small subset of Cygwin and uses it to provide full
> OpenSSH functionality, so you can get SSH as it is on UNIX from the Windows
> command prompt.
>
> Will

Neat! thanks, now I have to try it out (which requires a few moments at home 
uninterupted... good luck to me!)

And thanks to everyone who helped with this... I was getting majorly 
confused...




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