On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, John Franks wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be easier to tunnel VNC via ssh?
> > http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html
>
> With linux at home it would be about the same effort, but tunneling
> would be more secure and hence better.
>
> But can you do this under windows?  If so can the average user do it?

  Yes, but probably not without a little documentation from the sysadmin!
It is not that hard.  They need cygwin's setup.exe, a list of packages for
X11, and how to run X11 under windows.  For simplicity's sake, they can
use putty and the proper settings for forwarding X over ssh (as opposed to
openssh in cygwin).

  They only snag I found was when my windows account was in a domain, some
of the windowmanager install scripts barfed on my windows home directory
(requiring a symlink in cygwin and/or a change to my home directory
registry entry).

Karl Leifeste
Dept. of Mathematics
Texas A&M University