From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 8:19:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7B237B404 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7295343E97 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gAIGMZAQ010297; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:22:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 172.16.1.33 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by samaria.polands.org with HTTP; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:19:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1131.172.16.1.33.1037636383.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:19:43 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Secure tunneling of remote-access Windows sessions? From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <3DD8C017.7030503@pantherdragon.org> References: <3DD8C017.7030503@pantherdragon.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Pilgrim said: > I want to setup VNC on some Windows machines so I can access them > over the internet, but I need to secure the connection in a way > that will work with NAT'ing firewalls on both ends of the > connection. How can I do this? I was thinking of setting up a > tunnel between the two > firewalls. On the local end, the tunnel starts at a given port on > the firewall, which is connected to a port on the remote firewall > that forwards to the VNC port on the remote machine. How would I > go about doing this? Is there a better option? > > I recommend you use the TightVNC form of VNC. Read the info on this link: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html then read the ssd man page paying close attention to the -L switch. If you have particular problems after this leg work, then ask again. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message