On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:58, Gustavo Rahal wrote: > Hi > > How to change the port vncserver is running? Actually, I don't know if > the port change is something to do with X or vnc. > The situation is that I want to access my PC that is inside a home > network (there is a server doing NAT with iptables). I already have > access to the server from outside but I would like to access my computer > (ip 192.168.....) so I imagine that I would have to do a port forward to > my PC, is that right? Since the server is already running vncserver I > have to forward different ports... > > Appreciate any help If you are already using ssh to access the server from outside then setup an ssh tunnel. I did this using putty on the laptop. Under the ssh settings setup an entry specifying a local port (such as 5905) that is mapped to your servers IP address and port 5901. Then when you connect via ssh the tunnel is setup for you. Then run vnc using localhost:5 for the machine you are trying to connect to. This will cause the vnc session to be routed via the local port 5905 to the ssh tunnel which ends up on the remote server. vnc assumes the port starts at 5900 so when you use :5 it actually hits port 5905 on your local machine. Have been using this for some time now. Nothing to setup on the remote server except to have vnc listening on the default port. Check out the vnc web site. It think that is where I found the information to set this up. There were two parts that were a little confusing. When you setup the ssh tunnel that establishes a tunnel directly from your machine to the remote server. So you need to use the actual IP address on the remote machine to define its end of the tunnel. The other part that was a little confusing was how to get vnc to use a specified port. Instead of spelling out the whole thing it adds 5900 to the value you put after the colon. Hope that helps and did not muddy the waters more. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
