VNC (Virtual Network Computing) question

[Ed Jones]

As Trond says, VNC is pretty insecure - it's really not worth risking doing
it directly.

VNC uses ports 5801 upwards (depending on how many virtual consoles you're
running) - so if you want to give it a try, open port 5801 on your firewall
or doing some port forwarding if you need to. It's a pretty bad idea,
though.

A better way would be to run specific applications through SSH (if your
client machine is a linux box with an X server) or by opening a VPN tunnel
into the network on which the VNC server sits.

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trond Husø" <tr-huso at online.no>
To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: SV: VNC (Virtual Network Computing) question


> VNC is a very insecure ... just so you know.
>
> -t-
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> > Sendt: 14. mai 2004 11:38
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> > Emne: VNC (Virtual Network Computing) question
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> >
> > 1. I use VNC (vncserver and vncviewer) to view and interact with any
> > K12LTSP server in my Lab. It works fine !
> >
> > 2. I would like to be able to connect - via INTERNET - to a K12LTSP
> > server located in another building in the Campus, view and interact
> > with it.
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> > Can somebody help me ?
> > Thank you.
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