Jim Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > >> How do I set up this environment variable on my notebook. Would I modify my >> .bash_profile file, and is the format of the added line:\ >> VNC_VIA_CMD=/usr/bin/ssh -p 7722 -f -L "$L":"$H":"$R" "$G" sleep 20 >> > > You could actually do this a little bit easier, by defining a user ssh > config file in ~/.ssh > > You could do something similar to: > > Host myvncgateway > HostName server.com > User backupuser #default username > Port 2222 # Use this port instead of 22. neat, but... This simplified my ssh commands, not having to include the -p ____ But I could not get vncviewer working. For the command: vncviewer gate.foo.com:5902 -via gate.foo.com I get: VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Mar 14 2007 22:51:02 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. me at gate.foo.com's password: Tue Jul 15 07:54:27 2008 CConn: connected to host localhost port 5599 channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused main: End of stream Where did port 5599 come from? So I kind of gave up, I set up a SSH port forwarding and ran through that. All this to make a change to my firewall rules. My firewall would not accept an external admin connection, so I had to get an internal Firefox client running on this system. Hop, Hop, Hop....