Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:27 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:43, Greg Meyer wrote: vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to tell. That's what I am doing using Internet Security. It

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:27, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA With the Xvnc options you can specify the TCP/IP

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:51 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:43, Greg Meyer wrote: vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Franki
couldn't you just use the firewall to block the port on the interface/card you don't want it on??? rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: You might be interested in running vnc through an ssh tunnel. That's what I do and it works great. You basically create an ssh session that forwards the port on the vncserver to the local machine, and then connect vncviewer to localhost.

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:47 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: You might be interested in running vnc through an ssh tunnel. That's what I do and it works great. You basically create an ssh session that forwards the port on the vncserver to the local

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:20, Franki wrote: couldn't you just use the firewall to block the port on the interface/card you don't want it on??? rgds Franki If we can call XP Internet Security a firewall, that's just what I am doing. -- 7:53pm up 11:20, 4 users, load average: 0.36,

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 20:05, Greg Meyer wrote: You could actually use something like PuTTy and have her make the connection to your ssh server, just reverse the port forwarding so you forward the remote port to the host (or vice versa, I don't remeber the precise direction). This way you

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 20:27, Robert Wideman wrote: If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob A great link. Thanks, Rob. -- 8:36pm up 12:04, 4 users,