remote desktop access

[James McDonald]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>I know the following question is a popular one and one that has a
>zillion possible solutions. I ask it here to see what anyone on this
>list has perhaps done.
>
>

If the firewall supports ssh and you don't have a Microsoft or similar 
VPN at work. I do the following.

Install cygwin along with the openssh on the windows box

 From a command prompt in windows

cd /d C:\cygwin

cygwin.bat

$ ssh -l jamesm <firewall> -L 590y:<192.168.1.x>:590y
    where <firewall> is the fqdn or IP of the work firewall
    and y is the number of the vncserver running on the linux box
    eg.
    $ ssh -l jamesm myhost.dyndns.org -L 5901:192.168.1.4:5901

This sets up a tunnel from the localhost windows computer to the work 
firewall to the vnc port on the linux box at work

Then from the windows box at home I install RealVNC vncviewer and make 
sure allow connection to localhost is enabled then run vncviewer and enter

localhost:5901

instant remote desktop

OR

if you do have some other vpn software just start a tunnel to the work 
firewall and then

vncviewer <IPofLinuxBoxAtWork>:<ScreenNumber>