On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 14:31, John Franks wrote:
> One of the common issues we have as a research mathematics department is
> how to best work from home on an office workstation. The best solution
> we have found is vnc
>
> One big hitch for us has been that for this to work the desktop must
> allow outside access to the port on which the server is running and we
> normally don't allow that.  In fact without special efforts, which may
> be hard under windows, this involves sending a cleartext password.
Wouldn't it be easier to tunnel VNC via ssh?
http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html