From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> > Hi All, > > Referencing this site > > http://freesco.no-ip.org/VNC/VNC_PuTTY_HOWTO.pdf > > but having some problems. (Can't get it to work) > > Am I correct to think that when one does SSH_remote forwarding, by creating > the local port (5095) to be forwared to remote server port 5901, we are in > effect creating the port 5095 locally? Meaning, if I do a nmap of the > localhost I would see that port 5095 is open?? > > Cos when I do it, port 5905 is _not_ open and I can't connect to the remote > vncserver. > > Can anyone shed some light? Look here: http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html HTH, Ben