SSH and VNC.... how?

[BritishNemesis]

Well I got VNC running on my local network. The idea is that one windows 2000 pro system will serve windows apps to my 2 other redhat systems on my home network. Everything is behind a firewall router with MAC based filtering for the local network. What I was wondering is ssh tunneling necessary? If it is... how do I set that up on the windows system? I know that ssh comes with Redhat however I don't have a clue how to go about setting this up on my windows server.

Is this necessary and how do you do it if so?

[cowanrl]

If I were in your situation and was confident that my firewall was configured and operating properly, I would not bother with ssh tunneling. It adds a lot of overhead because everything that passes between the 2 computers has to be encrypted/decrypted.

The only way I would is if the data being transferred was extremely sensitive and there was a chance the network traffic could be sniffed by someone on the local network.

I have never seen an ssh server for Windows though there may be one out there. There are some good clients available though.

If your LAN is secure, I wouldn't worry about it.

[seabass55]

Ah yes but remember that ssh also provides compression thus increasing speed of VNC.

[BritishNemesis]

hey guys thanks for the quick and speedy reply. I couldn't find an ssh server for windows and it just seems like a lot of hassle so I think I'll leave it as is. Thanks again!

[seabass55]

http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~luo/tightvnc_ssh.html