vnc

Jan 1 2014

Tunneling to VNC over SSH

This specific content was written 8 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

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.

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
```
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
```

WorkStation:
Create tunnel if needed of X-Server

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