On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, John Summerfield wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > # Use "-localhost" to prevent remote VNC clients connecting except > > > when # doing so through a secure tunnel. See the "-via" option in > > > the # `man vncviewer' manual page. > > > > i only recently noticed the "-via" option, but the man page > > explanation for that is hideously uninformative in terms of explaining > > what my options are for the "gateway" system. assuming i can use the > > VNC client system itself as the gateway, if i'm currently connecting > > using: > > > > $ vncviewer 192.168.1.100:5901 > > > > how precisely would i extend that to add a "-via" option? that > > *would* be worth adding to the recipe. > > > I've notice -via before, and am at least as confused as you are. > However, my LANs are small enough and my VNCs and firewalls tight > enough that i simply don't trouble myself with making it listen to a > specific IP address. oh, wait, it works thusly (at least in my case): $ vncviewer -via localhost <VNC server IP>:1 which would seem to make sense in the trivial case -- i want the localhost (VNC client system) to act as the SSH gateway. i'll play with this some more to see what else needs explaining. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
