I'm not sure I'm following. Are you sure you have port forwarding working
at all?
Are you running VNC on Linux?
Are you sure you're note running a service/process/daemon on 5901 locally?
For a truer test, try
"ssh -L 5955:remotevncserver:5901 user@remotesshserver"
Then try connecting VNC to localhost:55.
You should be golden.
-ME
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "VNC List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: Why *local* port forwarding?
> In order to get VNC to work over SSH, I need to forward the local
> connection to the remote host instead of the other way around. This seems
> a little counter-intuitive to me, and I was hoping someone could explain
> why it works this way.
>
> Since the VNC server is running on port 5901 on machine foo, why am I not
> forwarding 5901 on foo to 5901 on localhost? Doing so doesn't work (I keep
> making that mistake) but sending localhost:5901 to foo:5901 does the job
> properly.
>
> Please enlighten me.
>
> --
> Todd A. Jacobs
> Senior Network Consultant
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