On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 17:17 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 05:30 pm, Jay Paulson wrote:
Hi all!
I'm new to SuSE and I'm loving it! At work I want to be able to VNC into my machine at home. However, the only ports that are open to the outside world are 80 and 22. I would like to keep port 22 reserved for ssh and make port 80 reserved for VNC connections. My question is it possible to set up a secure connection to my machine at home via VNC on port 80? If so how would one set up VNC to connect via a secure connection on port 80?
Thanks in advance! Jay
Why bother with vnc...?
Why not set ssh up on a high port where no one should be able to find it and then ssh into your machine. Works well without more than a minutes worth of effort.
Once you know how. How an explanation for the new user. There is nothing worse than telling someone new how easy it is without showing them how. This link may help some: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1511.html
I can only get out from work via port 22 or port 80. So setting ssh up on a high port wouldn't work b/c I wouldn't be able to connect! doh! :)
Chill out man. Usually only the inbound ports are restricted to 22 and 80 amongst others, not outbound. You never want to run vnc over the internet by it's self, it is -not- safe. Use ssh to create a tunnel first, It's similar to using VPN for a connection and it encrypts the connection. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge