Jan 1 2014

Tunneling to VNC over SSH

By Menelaos Bakopoulos • Linux, Servers (*ix , scripting) • 0 • Tags: remote, ssh, vnc

You may want to connect to a headless/monitorless linux pc with a vnc server running that only exposes an SSH port.

I have used the following steps from windows.

1. Server:
   Run VNCServer
   
   If not running already start your server.  You can set the resolution using -geometry tag. This will open a new port/session.

   vncserver -geometry 1920x1200

    

2. Workstation:
   Create the tunnel to VNC portThis maps the local pc port 5905 to localhost:5905 on the remote machine. VNC uses ports 5901 to 5909.

   ssh -L 5905:localhost:5905 menelaos@menelaos.server.net -p 22

    

3. WorkStation:
   Create tunnel if needed of X-Server

   ssh -L 6005:localhost:6005 menelaos@menelaos.server.net -p 22

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