Re: Secure VNC from Windows?
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:57:41PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote:
> David Fokkema wrote:
>
> > There is this particular windows machine that had a vnc viewer
> > installed. I thought: hey, that's cool! and installed a vnc server at
> > home and use it from time to time. And now I find out it is not
> > encrypted. Nice.
> >
> > Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on
> > windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The
> > problem is that I can't just install a Cygwin environment or something
> > like that.
>
> You could create a secure tunnel between the two systems, then run VNC over
> it. SSH port forwarding + PuTTY would work, as would Stunnel.
Just to be certain: are you saying it is possible on a windows platform
to tunnel a vnc viewer through putty?
Thanks,
David
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