On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 05:51, Ed Jones wrote: > As Trond says, VNC is pretty insecure - it's really not worth risking doing > it directly. > > VNC uses ports 5801 upwards (depending on how many virtual consoles you're > running) - so if you want to give it a try, open port 5801 on your firewall > or doing some port forwarding if you need to. It's a pretty bad idea, > though. > I thought it was port 5901? > A better way would be to run specific applications through SSH (if your > client machine is a linux box with an X server) or by opening a VPN tunnel > into the network on which the VNC server sits. > VNC is not a secure way to connect. However, running it over an ssh tunnel works just fine. Have used putty on a windows box to set that up and setting up an ssh tunnel under linux is even easier. I have found that enabling compression helps with the refresh a little. I don't know if I would want to use this everyday but it does the job when needed. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
