VNC multiplexer

[Anthony Chavez]

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com> wrote:

>>> On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez <acc at anthonychavez.org> wrote:
>>>> I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers
>>>> behind a FreeBSD gateway.  Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via
>>>> DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK).  However, we
>>>> intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames.
>
> I missed the first part of this, but would proxying the VNC
> connections through an intermediate SSH server help at all?
>
> http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vnc_through_an_ssh_proxy
>
> You could setup individual SSH tunnels for each machine in question.
> The tunnel would stay the same regardless of the IP... and the VNC
> viewer would connect to localhost so you'd never really need the
> server IP.

This *might* work.  I think that my client wants to be as non-intrusive
on the users' workstations as possible, but we could always script up
something to mass-deploy openssh and tightvnc "invisibly" to the users.

Thanks!

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Anthony Chavez                                 http://anthonychavez.org/
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