Re: [CentOS] wiki - vnc -gerald and walsh, update?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com wrote: [snip]

opened port 5902 in iptables, restarted iptables |INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5902 -j ACCEPT

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in putty I made a saved session called 'vnc to my server' went to connections, ssh, tunnels in putty explorer added source port, 5902 destination I put in localhost:5902 click add then save the whole session (go back to session page)

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Note if you are exclusively using an SSH tunnel to access your VNC, you don't need to open a port for VNC in the firewall. In fact, not opening a direct port for VNC is a good way of enforcing the tunnel to secure the connection.