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Some Apple Remote Desktop client features
Authored by: paulsomm on May 10, '05 10:48:27AM

"Note I said 'emergency' troubleshooting in the last point. You really shouldn't be doing plain, unencrypted VNC connections via Internet if you can avoid it. OSXVnc has a nice feature that will only allow SSH-tunneled connections. I don't believe the ARD VNC server has a similar option."

No VNC server has the option to SSH directly to it. Just as with any other VNC server, you can indeed use SSH tunnel. OSXVNC's option only disallows network connections and instead only listens for localhost connections (which, since it's only useful via ssh tunneling, explains their word choice).

I do this myself. I have SSH connections into my powerbook and ARD set to allow VNC connections. From work, I open my SSH client (from cygwin) and type:

ssh myname@my.home.ip.address -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900

Then I open up TightVNC and connect to 127.0.0.1 and it directs me to my home 10.4 machine.

Quite nice.

There is also a hint here on macosxhints.com on using reverse tunneling for those oh-so-frequent calls from mom/dad for support . . .

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050429153115383



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Some Apple Remote Desktop client features
Authored by: victory on May 12, '05 08:13:29AM

Yes, I suppose I could have been a bit clearer in that description (about VNC servers not having native SSH tunneling capability)

[On the other hand, wouldn't it be neat if someone *did* build VNC server with a SSH transport compiled in as a single static binary? Perhaps not the full OpenSSH package, but maybe something smaller such as dropbear, which is often used in embedded systems because of its tiny footprint]



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Some Apple Remote Desktop client features
Authored by: lloydalvarez on Dec 08, '05 01:52:04PM

I tried your SSH tunneling tip, but i got an error saying:

Bind: Address already in use

What does that mean?



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