Way OT: SSH+VNC as quickndirty VPN

[Allan Bowhill]

On  0, "Goodleaf, John M" <jgoodlea at fhcrc.org> wrote:
:
:Here's the scenario:
:I have a Windows machine at work. I have a VNC server on it. It is behind a
:firewall over which I have no control, so I cannot make a direct connection
:to this machine from outside. What I'd like to do is to initiate a SSH
:connection (with compression) to my BSD machine at home (which I can do) and
:forward the VNC server connection through that SSH tunnel. I'd like to then
:lock my workstation and office, go home, and use vncviewer to have access to
:my workstation at work. That way I can do work at odd hours and while
:watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
:
:Is this possible? I have tried a few combinations of port forwarding, but
:for whatever reason, find it unintuitive. Can't quite get it to work. Any
:suggestions much appreciated.

I agree, it is counter-intuitive, but I know it mostly works on a Unix-to-
Unix connection, but I have forgotten how to set it up. There may be a
problem with doing it with windows as the server, though.

vnc can only grant access to a single session in windows,  and that
session's display is based on reading the video frame buffer.

This generally would mean that you can't simultaneously lock your machine and
do work on it at the same time from home. In other words, when you login
from home, everything you do will be displayed on the windows machine in
your office while you are doing it.


-- 
Allan Bowhill
abowhill at blarg.net
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