Comments on: How to use VNC with SSH encrypted tunnelling

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:25:47 +0000

Thanks for this. I wonder if it would be possible to only allow incoming vnc connections from specific mac addresses.

By: nemka

nemka — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:04:07 +0000

I followed the instructions and when I tried to run (open)session in Putty I got “putty fatal error network error: connection refused”

By: Simon Fearby

Simon Fearby — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:32:10 +0000

Regarding my comment above, I have been having stability issues with OpenSSH with Vista and I will search for solutions.

I have also found and article on “SSH Tunnelling without clear text user name / password” (PGP) here: http://blog.robersonsoftware.com/2007/01/03/non-clear-text-passwords-using-ssh/

By: Simon Fearby

Simon Fearby — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:40:40 +0000

In order to get OpenSSH service running (and accepting connections) on Vista (with UAC turned off) I had to set Program Compatibility (mode: Windows XP SP2) to the following files.

“C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin\cygrunsrv.exe”
“C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\usr\sbin\sshd.exe”
“C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\usr\sbin\sftp-server.exe”

I also uninstalled and reinstalled a fresh OpenSSH and TightVNC for good measure.

fyi: There is a new version of Putty (v0.60).
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

By: Simon Fearby

Simon Fearby — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:47:31 +0000

Putty 0.59 is out (24th Jan 2007):

Download: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Snip (change log):
– Improved speed of SSH on Windows (particularly SSH-2 key exchange and public-key authentication).

Read change log: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html