On 23/01/07, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found the following for my case: 1) From machine A do "ssh -L 12345:C:5900 B" (where B and C are your machine names in question) in a first terminal window. This allows an ssh login from A to machine B where the firewall is, but once connected is set up to forward in this case port 12345 from the originating machine A to port 5900 on machine C. Once connected to machine B, then login to machine C on the standard ssh port. Now the tunnel should be set up with the correct port forwarding that you want - in this case anything going to poert 12345 on machine A will be forwarded through to 5900 on machine C which is the standard vnc port. 2) Once this is running then start the vnc connection command in a second terminal session on machine A going to port 12345, and this will then have the vnc command running and communicating to port 5900 (default) on machine C via the tunnel.
Thanks Mike - this is what I did already except replace "vnc" with "ssh" and "5900" with "22" in your description. It relies upon machine B allowing TCPforwarding, which seems not to be the case for my local setup. Thanks for the suggestion tho. Jonathan
