D'OH!!! Because I was using PuTTY I wasn't entering th commands manually, and in my own (bizarre) way of logic, I had decided to put the remote address in there. So... we have a word in Scotland that describes what I am - haddy: a smoked haddock of very little brain. Thanks very much, that's it working :-[ Cheers, Neil Armin Schoech wrote:
Hi !
Have just tried a packet sniff with tcpdump. No results for a sniff on the loopback interface, but results on eth0! So ssh seems to be the problem.
--> Just an idea: What exactly is the SSH command you use ? It should be something like ssh -L5904:localhost:5904 user@host.net
to forward port 5904 from your client to the localhost/loopback interface on the remote host where your VNC server is running.
Armin