I'm having a bit of trouble with understanding the steps required to tunnel vnc through ssh, and most all of the tutorials assume either a windows/linux interface or a router/lan.
Basically, I want to connect to my windows box via vnc from any other computer. I'm at an edu, and thus I have a unique public ip. Now how exactly do I run the ssh protocol as a server to go windows -> windows? I have SSH Secure Shell that I can use, but I don't know what settings I need to enable/disable, and what ports I need to forward. Do I need to create a profile that always listens on 5900, and then set vnc to listen on a non-standard port like 9501 and forward the tunnel to there? How do I always listen?
To diagram what I think needs to happen, I would do the following.
Lab computer -> Run the WinVNC client -> connect to my Windows machine public ip -> have that port 5900 forwarded as a local loopback connection to display 0 via ssh tunnel (?) -> Windows display, and back
or is it Lab computer -> winvnc to XXX.XXX.XXX.XX:9500 (my public ip:non-standard vnc port) -> have ssh running in the background (how?) listening on 9500, and create a tunnel (how again?) to localhost:5900 -> Windows desktop?
Do I need to create a profile in SSH that automatically does that, and leave that terminal open when I want to vnc?
As you can see, I'm very confused as to the abilities of VNC and SSH, and howto configure each separately. Just as a FYI, I'm using the new 4.0beta of WinVNC, and SSH Secure Shell v3.2 built 267. Any help provided would be much appreciated.
As an aside, I have a linux box available, if that would prove helpful, and I also have a thing called WinSSL that I've used to encrypt my irc... can I use that to encrypt vnc as well?
Basically, I want to connect to my windows box via vnc from any other computer. I'm at an edu, and thus I have a unique public ip. Now how exactly do I run the ssh protocol as a server to go windows -> windows? I have SSH Secure Shell that I can use, but I don't know what settings I need to enable/disable, and what ports I need to forward. Do I need to create a profile that always listens on 5900, and then set vnc to listen on a non-standard port like 9501 and forward the tunnel to there? How do I always listen?
To diagram what I think needs to happen, I would do the following.
Lab computer -> Run the WinVNC client -> connect to my Windows machine public ip -> have that port 5900 forwarded as a local loopback connection to display 0 via ssh tunnel (?) -> Windows display, and back
or is it Lab computer -> winvnc to XXX.XXX.XXX.XX:9500 (my public ip:non-standard vnc port) -> have ssh running in the background (how?) listening on 9500, and create a tunnel (how again?) to localhost:5900 -> Windows desktop?
Do I need to create a profile in SSH that automatically does that, and leave that terminal open when I want to vnc?
As you can see, I'm very confused as to the abilities of VNC and SSH, and howto configure each separately. Just as a FYI, I'm using the new 4.0beta of WinVNC, and SSH Secure Shell v3.2 built 267. Any help provided would be much appreciated.
As an aside, I have a linux box available, if that would prove helpful, and I also have a thing called WinSSL that I've used to encrypt my irc... can I use that to encrypt vnc as well?
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