pigtail.net — "This tutorial shows you how to use ssh to tunnel VNC traffic (TCP port 5900) through the public Internet, so that you can safely view / control your home Windows g PC from a remote site, under the strong encryption of ssh.The encryptions used by ssh are AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, 3DES, Blowfish or CAST"
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sunimitNov 8, 2005
I posted this similar article on Digg a couple of days ago.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/HOWTO_Use_Your_Mac_From_Anywhere">http://digg.com/apple/HOWTO_Use_Your_Mac_From_Anywhere</a>Article has VDO tutorial on how to setup SSH to tunnel VNC over the Internet.Direct link to the article: <a class="user" href="http://howto.diveintomark.org/remote-mac/">http://howto.diveintomark.org/remote-mac/</a>
Closed AccountNov 8, 2005
UltraVNC is mainly just for widnows, things like RealVNC are (more widely atleast) avalible for other platformsAnyway, usefull enough- Ben
peaceNov 8, 2005
Freenx is another very good client alternative if you are on slow networks.SSH server for windows machines:<a class="user" href="http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/">http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/</a>
rothbartNov 8, 2005
I use Remote Desktop tunneled through an ssh connection all the time. I have a Linux file server at home (on a small network) and just tunnel the appropriate port to my home network. As a nice side note, if anyone in my office happens to click on Remote Desktop to see the last IP connected to, they'll only see 127.0.0.1:3390 (which gets forwarded to port 3389 at home). And SSH compression speeds up Remote Desktop noticeably. The later versions of PuTTY let you turn compression on/off on the fly and you can really tell.
coaxNov 8, 2005
Another advantage of the SSH tunnel is that you can hide your VNC-ing or for that matter, any other communication (email, webbrowsing, ftp, etc) from your corporate network.Just configure your home NAT/router so that port 443 is forwarded to your SSHserver on port 22 and you have an (almost) unblockable / always-reachable way of evading the corporate nazis all the time.
griffen37Nov 9, 2005
I think this tutorial, though largely repetitive, is slightly easier to follow: <a class="user" href="http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/SSH-RDP-VNC/RemoteDesktopVNCandSSH.html">http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/SSH-RDP-VNC/RemoteDesktopVNCandSSH.html</a>
antitraceNov 9, 2005
QUOTE: People who claim RDP is so much faster than VNC have never used UltraVNC with the mirror driver. It works very well and elimates any speed differences between the two.Also RDP has one major flaw that cannot ever be fixed. It only gives you a terminal session, not real direct access to your desktop. Without that RDP is worthless IMHO. For servers fine, for home users belch. Stick with VNC, it offers much more.UNQUOTE:whatever dude, I use both for work, EVERY DAY. RDP blows Ultra VNC away. But nonetheless, you can shadow 0 for the local desktop if you want/need that. Also, you can get the RDP dll from windows 2003 and have multiple RDP connections on a single xp (pro) desktop.VNC rocks, yes, but it isn't better than RDP in speed and ease of use, and especially ease of use and encryption all tied into one.
piedoodJul 24, 2007
Yes. Try tightvnc loopback on Windows and it will show both the real desktop and the vnc window - kind of like looking at a mirror with a mirror you get infinite windows.
nixpanicApr 23, 2009
Dead link :(