[PLUG] Newby looking for GUI/PUTTY help

[glen e. p. ropella]

Tim wrote:
> if you are really lucky, you can lock that iptables rule down even 
> further if you have a single source address that will be accessing the 
> remote desktop
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT

Or you can use SSH tunneling and start a new X11 session on the remote
host and avoid adding a new firewall rule.  IIRC, it's fairly easy to
forward ports over ssh.  When you get to your remote machine, just use
the Xvnc command with a display argument (e.g. "$ Xvnc :2").

Then when you start the VNC client on your windows machine, you direct
it to the localhost (and the new port) with the local port and the
traffic goes through the ssh tunnel.

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