Siegfried Heintze wrote: >> I used to use the following all the time to access my Windows machine >> remotely: >> >> ssh -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 -N -C -o Compression=yes -o >> CompressionLevel=9 >> <machine name or ip> >> vncviewer & >> > Hmmmm... I hope that is not true. I hope this is on topic because I think it > is an issue with installing ssh. I get the following error when I try the > command above: > > No matching comp found: client zlib server none,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I tried leaving off the -o and compression flags, but this did not help. I > got the same error until I removed the -C and then it did not even give me > an error message (and still did not work). > I'm no expert, but...
-C and -o Compression=yes are the same option, so it'll fail due to what looks like an incompatibility between versions of ssh I think. See: http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=openssh-unix-dev&a=2005-10&t=1422256 If you leave compression off, then you won't get an error message because it's probably working. ssh with -f will just spawn in the background and return (-f implies -n, which redirects to /dev/null). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh -C -N -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps -elf | grep ssh 1 S me 19430 1 0 75 0 - 1117 - 10:42 ? 00:00:00 ssh -C -N -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't say *how* it's not working, but if you're using "5901:localhost:5900" as the tunnel, you'll need to connect vncviewer to localhost:1 not just localhost. - Si -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/