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Re: Secure VNC from Windows?



On Monday, 21 Jun 2004 00:33, David Fokkema wrote:
> 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.

Why not? What can you install, if anything?

I personally have my parents SSH into my box using Putty (because their ISP 
does not allow incoming TCP connections to be established) and tunnel VNC 
through that so I can administer their poor Windows computers 13,450 km away 
and put more free software on them. The compression of SSH is even said to 
make this faster than unencrypted VNC.

It's not quite clear from your question what you wish to do and what your 
constraints are, but putty, tunnel, and vnc would be good things to feed 
Google.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom



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