[TriLUG] access without compromise?

[Warren Myers]

If for no other reason than it has to encrypt everything that passes through
the tunnel.

WMM

On 10/9/05, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> It might just be me, but I have noticed in the past that the tunneled
> VNC session isn't as responsive as the unsecure and untunneled session.
> Obviously, secure is better than unsecure, but I was wondering if anyone
> knew why the tunneled session is so much slower?
>
> Randy
>
> David McDowell wrote:
>
> >No one has mentioned using Putty on your WinXP workstation yet. Then
> >you can setup a tunnel for your VNC. I use this in 2 different ways.
> >
> >- At work, ssh home, tunnel VNC into another box in my internal home
> network
> >
> >- At home on my wifi segment (separated from my internal home network)
> >I ssh in from there and tunnel VNC for the same purpose
> >
> >1. google putty and download putty.exe to your desktop (or wherever)
> >2. launch putty
> >3. enter in hostname or your home IP address, choose ssh and port 22
> >(presuming you are leaving ssh on port 22)
> >4. enter a saved sessions name and click save, the choice should
> >appear in the list
> >5. while those settings are still loaded, goto left menu, navigate to
> >Connection > SSH > Tunnels
> >(my presumption here is your VNC display is on display:1 or port 5901)
> >6. in Source port, enter 5901
> >7. in Destination, enter 192.168.1.5:5901 <http://192.168.1.5:5901> (fill
> in the internal IP of
> >your machine running VNC server)
> >8. click Add
> >9. go back and click the Session menu on the left menu
> >10. click Save
> >11. click Open (answer yes if first time to host like any ssh connection)
> >12. login
> >13. open vncviewer.exe on your WinXP desktop
> >14. in the Server field, enter localhost:1 (if your display was #1 on
> >port 5901)
> >15. enter your VNC password and enjoy VNC tunnelel through SSH
> >
> >Now your only detectable session is from your WinXP box ssh'd to your
> >Debian box at home. There are tons of other things people in this
> >group tunnel through SSH, this just happens to be the one thing I do
> >and use all the time.
> >
> >enjoy,
> >David McD
> >
> >
>
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