On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:14 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > I have asked on the VNC list and gotten deafening silence. I'm trying > to use PuTTY on the Windows side of things to create an SSH tunnel for > VNC. I've gotten PuTTY (and another SSH client) to connect to the > linux box, but I can't seem to get VNC to connect. > > One of the SSH clients I'm using has given me a cryptic error message: > "Server rejected our attempt to open a client-side client-2-server > connection - reason: SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED, > description: open failed." > > This would seem to indicate that SSH is blocking the VNC service that > I am attempting to connect to. I know that VNC is running because I > can telnet to localhost port 5901 on the linux box and I get the VNC > prompt, but when I try from the windows side, I don't get anything, > which would appear to indicate that the tunnel isn't working > correctly, but I followed the instructions I've used previously which > worked fine. > > I don't know if it's something I've added since I last used PuTTY to > tunnel my VNC session or what. > > Any ideas??? > Is there a reason you have to use putty?. I just use ssh with the vncserver as part of teh vnc package. -- Joseph Loo jloo@xxxxxxx
