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On 12 Jul, Jay Paulson wrote:
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?
Just use ssh.. Start vncserver on home box, then, from remote host: ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 <homebox> then, in another xterm, run vncviewer: vncviewer localhost:1 Assuming the vncserver started up at :1 on the homebox (just make the port 59xx where xx is the display number, padded with a 0 if < 10). I also recommend adding the -C flag to ssh to let is compress most of the display stuff. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!" == He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.