VNC secure Tunneling using (Windows) Putty Client

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Dahlberg [mailto:p00mda at du.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:35 AM
> To: Fedora-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: VNC secure Tunneling using (Windows) Putty Client
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone shed some light?
> 
> It's easier than you think (and what they say in that pdf).
> 
> You just tell Putty to forward local port 5901 to remote port 5901. In
> other words, in Putty's SSH tunnel config, put 5901 as local 
> port and then
> the IP number of the host followed by ":5901". Finish by clicking Add.
> 
> The result should look something like "L5901  192.168.1.1:5901".

That works!!! Not sure why. I thought port forwarding should be just that.. 
if it's port 5095 should be forwarded to port 5901  

L5905 	192.168.1.1:5901 should work.. But does not..

Not sure why.. But oh well..