What is the best way to VPN into Snow Leopard?

[Ichigo]

With a netbook? I'm not sure if I'll be able to hackintosh the netbook so I'm not exactly sure what my options are.

 

[TheStu]

On the machine that you want to VPN into, go to System Preferences, Sharing. There you can enable Screen Sharing, and under the settings for that, you can enable VNC which should give you the same functionality (IIRC).

 

[Nothinman]

Is that VNC tunneled over ssh or stunnel by default? Because if not it's pretty the equivalent of a plain-text connection.

 

[TheStu]

Is that VNC tunneled over ssh or stunnel by default? Because if not it's pretty the equivalent of a plain-text connection.

Honestly I am not sure. Snow supports SSH and the OP could always connect that way, unless he needs a GUI (SSH can't do GUI can it?). And he could install another VNC server that does support tunneling.

 

[Nothinman]

Honestly I am not sure. Snow supports SSH and the OP could always connect that way, unless he needs a GUI (SSH can't do GUI can it?). And he could install another VNC server that does support tunneling.

SSH can tunnel X natively, but you need a local X server and most apps in OS X aren't X anyway. And with SSH's port fowarding you can tunnel just about anything over it fairly simply, I've never tried it with OS X though.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Its pretty smple, I've used it from time to time.

Connect to your server:
ssh -L 1202:localhost:5900 user@machine

Then:
vnc://localhost:1202

VNC over SSH.

edit: fixed errors.

 

[Ichigo]

Yeah so I'm a bit of a noob in this department so just to clarify some points:

1. I need GUI.
2. I want to know what my options are for a Windows 7 or Snow Leopard machine acting as a client to do this over the *internet*.

Google isn't the most helpful with this for some reason.