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--- vnc [2020/06/04 07:04] – [Setting up port forwarding manually] jansen
+++ vnc [2020/10/16 08:43] – [Setting up port forwarding manually] jansen
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 The other important thing to know is, what a tunnel actually does: it creates an encrypted connection between a local ''port'' on your computer, to a port on the remote computer. Once that is done, you want to point your VNC client to the **local** port, and let SSH takes care of the rest.
-Example for commandline ssh on Mac OS X or Linux:
+Example for commandline ssh on Mac OS X or Linux, in the example where your vnc runs on a computer called eendracht, and you have to connect through the ssh gateway ssh.strw.leidenuniv.nl (and your vnc is on :1 so the port is 5901):
-  ssh -NfL 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 user@remote.host.domain
+  ssh -NfL 5901:eendracht:5901 username@ssh.strw.leidenuniv.nl
-This forwards local port 5901 to port 5901 on the remote computer
+This forwards local port 5901 to port 5901 on the remote computer. So now you can connect locally with:
+  vncviewer :1
+==== Setting up port forwarding through a graphical user interface ====
 If you would like to configure port forwarding through a gui, good choices are: ''putty'' for Windows and Linux, ''bitvise'' for Windows; or ''ssh tunnel manager'' for Mac OS X

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