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(*) Allow loopback connections
(*) LoopbackOnly
with a password
As the LoopbackOnly makes this more secure.
This same machine runs OpenSSHd (via Cygwin). From other machines, AND EVEN FROM REMOTER I am able to SSH into the machine and get a terminal window, no problems at all.
On other machines (Windows, Mac), if I try to connect to port 5900 it, of course, won't let me because I have LoopbackOnly enabled. On these other machines if I run the command:
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ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 myusername@the.machine.running.ultravnc.and.ssh.ip.address
It creates a tunnel such that if, on that local machine, I try to connect to port 5900 it will tunnel via SSH to the user myusername on the machine the.machine.running.ultravnc.and.ssh.ip.address (my machine running UltraVNC/SSH) and works perfectly, even with LoopbackOnly enabled.
Running Remoter, when I try to connect it says
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Creating Secure Tunnel
Connecting to VNC
Disconnected: Host 'xxx' Port: 59000 Port Forward Refused the Connection.
This usually indicates the computer is not running a VNC server on the specified port
My configuration for remoter is as follows
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Server type: VNC over SSH
Name: a name I picked
SSH Hostname: the.machine.running.ultravnc.and.ssh.ip.address
SSH Username: myusername
SSH Password: my ssh password
VNC Hostname: the.machine.running.ultravnc.and.ssh.ip.address
VNC Port: 5900
VNC Username: <blank>
VNC Password: my vnc password
If I disable "LookbackOnly" it will connect to my VNC without a problem, which SUGGESTS to me that it isn't using the SSH Tunnel, or? Not sure why this tunneling should be any different than the tunneling I created with the "ssl -L ..." command above.
