In the VNC Server: edit box, enter localhost (127.0.0.1). With this SSH tunnel established, you will now use VNCViewer to connect to the machine you configured PuTTY for ( 172.16.0.101)
You will need to authenticate to the SSH server to establish the SSH tunnel. Select the OPEN button to connect to your SSH Server. You can pass the username by preceding the host name with as indicated in the above graphic.Įnter a name in the Saved Sessions edit box, then press the Save button. Your SSH Server machine will need to be able to resolve this address/name.Įnter the host name and port (22). Setup a session to forward port 5900 to the machine you want to remote control (using it's local address (or DNS name), in this case: 172.16.0.101). Remote control your WinVNC Server machine. Configure your router to forward port 22 (SSH) to your " SSH Server".Ĭopy (or otherwise provide) vncviewer.exe and an SSH client (Putty.exe - ) to the client to be used to
CONFIGURE VNC THROUGH SSH WINDOWS
This can be a Linux machine, or a Windows machine running OpenSSH (). Settings to be checking on the Use 8-bit color and specify Hextile encoding method. button to specify your connection options. Repeater (or router from which you are forwarding port 5901) On your router, forward port 5901 to your VNC Repeater machineĮnter the local IP address (or DNS name) of the machine you want to controlĬheck on the Proxy Repeater check box, and enter the public address assigned to your VNC On your VNC Repeater machine, start the repeater program by running at a command In the directory where you installed UltraVNC, you will find vnc_repeater.exe.
In the properties of the server icon in the system tray, be sure to check on the Allow Loopback Connections option (see above graphic).
CONFIGURE VNC THROUGH SSH INSTALL
Install UltraVNC on your VNC Repeater machine.
Select the necessary properties of WinVNC repeater Install the VNC Server on a machine to be remote controlled This "distribution" of the Open Source VNC project includes additional features including other compression algorithms for speed and flexibility, file transfer, chat, and MS Logon authentication, to name a few. To follow are the instructions for this setup. The VNC Repeater enables you to open up a single port on your firewall to the VNC Repeater machine (kind of a "gateway" or "proxy"), and use the VNC Viewer to remote control any local machines running the WinVNC Server. By Bryan Keadle ( This email address is being protected from spambots.