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	cmdowns	2008-04-07 , 01:19
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Originally Posted by m_stolle

so, when you do

ssh -L5901:localhost:5901 user@targetIP

you are connecting to your home computer at "targetIP" and at the same time have created a tunnel. This tunnel makes it so that connecting to your local computer (presumable Nokia), port 5901 will get forwarded to "localhost" port 5901 on the remote end (hence, the comptuer you logged into via ssh).

I think I've got the "ssh -L5901:localhost:5901 user@targetIP" working. Can I assume that this establishes a secure ssh tunnel between my n800 (client) and the XP PC (server)?

Originally Posted by m_stolle

Now, in VNC, you have to connect to the _NOKIA_ via "localhost", to VNC server :1 (the VNC server gets added to 5900 so this is in effect port 5901)

Martin

This is what I'm confused about. Once I've got my ssh tunnel working as described above, how do I connect in VNC? Is this something I need to do in the xterm CLI, or can I do in the VNC Viewer app GUI?

There are two different VNC apps on my n800, the VNC Viewer and the x11VNC. Which should I be using to accomplish what is described above?

Thanks for all the help.

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