Subject: Re: VNC thru SSH via IPNAT?
To: Gan Uesli Starling <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
From: None <rmcm@compsoft.com.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/21/2002 07:34:08
Andy R writes:
 > --- Gan Uesli Starling <oinkfreebiker@att.net> wrote:
 > > Howdy,
 > > 
 > > I've got a local net of 3 WinNT's and one NetBSD in
 > > Detroit. The NetBSD has 
 > > SSH and two IP's. I want to SSH from a Win98 in
 > > Kalamazoo to the NetBSD in 
 > > Detroit so as to VNC from any of the 3 WinNT's to
 > > the Win98 in Kalamazoo.
 > > 
 > > Will IPNAT do that for SSH the same as for PPP? It
 > > is only for the three 
 > > machines to the one machine across all that lies
 > > between. I'm hoping to not 
 > > have to learn routed or gated.
 > > 
 > > Any clues?
 > > 
 > > A picture is worth ten hundred words...see attached
 > > ipnat_diag.png
 > 
 > If you establish an ssh connection from your client to
 > your server with the appropriate ports forwarded, then
 > you can use whatever app to connect while that ssh
 > connection exists. It's been a while since I've done
 > it... Basically you set up the connection, then tell
 > the vncviewer to connect to a local port that is then
 > forwarded to the server machine. Unless you have big
 > cpu's and lots of bandwidth, expect bad performance.
 > Doing this accross a wan has been quite painful for
 > me.

Tightvnc (in the pkg system) is considerably faster and has SSH
forwarding included.

-- 
Rex McMaster