Comments on: HowTo: Tunneling VNC Connections Over SSH

By: Dhairya

Dhairya — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:08:11 +0000

I followed these steps and could easily connect to remote machine. But now the problem is my localhost is not working as nginx server is unable to listen to 127.0.0.1. any solution?

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:03:40 +0000

Is there a way to force all users to tunnel to use vnc?

By: YBR

YBR — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:17:08 +0000

Thanks for this Ho-To. One additional note – you don’t have to specify “localhost” in the ssh -L command….I used this to tunnel from work into my home Linux box, and pointed it at the VNC server running on a laptop on my home network. Now I can nannycam! Here is what I did: ssh -L 5600:10.248.26.18:5900 plony@plony.com
(note, IP numbers/names have been changed to keep honest people honest :-)

By: baba

baba — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:02:48 +0000

sorry, my bad, it was the vnc password

By: baba

baba — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:02:57 +0000

great reference on a great site! however, following the scenario i am prompted with a password in my vnc client (vinagre) and none of the ones i provide work. any ideas?

By: TT

TT — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:02:30 +0000

Do you know if I need the SSH protocol over a network and behind a firewall in Window platform using tight VNC?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:54:39 +0000

Thank you, very good and clear. Indeed simpler than that from vnc client on windows

By: weyasey

weyasey — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:42:28 +0000

Great tutorial, it was clear and the explanation of the switches made it all understandable.
Thanks very much it helped me a great deal.