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Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key 12:14:26 XOpenDisplay(“:0”) failed. Then I enter the command ‘x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -once -display :0’ I get the x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -once -display :0 When I try logging into putty as an ssh tunnel things get tricky. Putty can still login the linux box using ipaddress, 22. I enable UFW with port 22 open on the linux box. With the firewall down on the linux box my windows box can login using VNC Connect by RealVNC using the Ipaddress and port 5900 (insecure no encryption). I am running ubuntu 20.04.3 on a RasPi 4B I have installed MATE desktop (desktopify) using lightdm. Resubmitted with an attempt at using markup I hope this looks better.

#Tunnel vnc through ssh Pc#

Now you can access Ubuntu PC remotely via SSH. Type localhost::5902 for VNC server and press Connect.įinish. Now leave the PuTTY window, then run TightVNC / RealVNC Viewer. Make sure there is no error message when you run the above command. Usaully local and remote port numbers are same to avoid. The above command will start an ssh connection to and also listen on port 5000 on localhost and forward vnc connection to port 5901 on. $ x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -once -display :0 Now, open the terminal and type the following command: ssh -N -f -L 5000 :localhost: 5901 vivek.

#Tunnel vnc through ssh password#

Type in Ubuntu login name and password in PuTTY window, and then type the following line in Ubuntu shell: Go back to Session section of PuTTY, type Ubuntu IP Address for Host Name (or IP address), and type 22 for Port, then click Open. In Tunnels section of PuTTy, type 5902 for Source port, and type localhost:5900 for Destination, then click Add. Run PuTTY and go to PuTTY configuration window: Connection > SSH > Tunnels.

#Tunnel vnc through ssh download#

In Windows PC, download and install: PuTTY, TightVNC / RealVNC. Make sure your firewall allowed incoming connection on port 22.

#Tunnel vnc through ssh install#

$ sudo apt-get install x11vnc openssh-server In Ubuntu PC, install x11vnc and openssh-server:

#Tunnel vnc through ssh how to#

This is how to create VNC tunnel via SSH. So now just ssh to ext.server, and once you have made your connections, use a VNC viewer to connect to localhost on port 5901, and voila you now have an X session on the internal server.VNC is a protocol that allows a desktop to be viewed and controlled remotely over the Internet.

We are going to forward all traffic for VNC - port 5901 into the tunnel once it is established using Localforward, and the proxy command uses netcat (nc) to push all the traffic down the reverse tunnel port it will find from your previous set-up with the reverse tunnel. The key things to take away from this config, is that you need to add an entry in your /etc/hosts file for the ext.server IP address. Prox圜ommand ssh -A server.in-the-cloud exec nc localhost 10022 UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/companyx ssh/config and add the following for the remote user/machine Next off to the remote machine, where we need to set up the SSH config file so that it tunnels all VNC traffic through the SSH tunnel Start the vncserver, which will now be listening on port 5901 on localhost. VNCSERVERARGS='-geometry 1024x768 -localhost' This is for security, we don't want it to respond to VNC on the actual IP address of the server.

Using Centos 6.2 as the server to connect to internally, running Gnome, install Tigervnc server and edit the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and set your X session size, display port numbers and we wish to tell it to listen only to localhost. Read my previous article on how to set up tunnels using SSH, and once you have that up and running we can set up the VNC servers.

So how is this done, well I think a little diagram will help to explain the idea, and then some steps to get it done. Enter the really useful VNC protocol for being able to remotely access a Linux machines X windows system.

I find that works quite nicely for my wireless VNC sessions from outside the internal network. While setting up ssh tunnels has become a useful way to get work done securely on the command line, there are occasions when a GUI is required. Thus, our final ssh command for a tunnel with encryption through a firewall would be (backslash continues the command on the next line as ‘one line’): ssh -L 5901:192.168.1.55:5900 -N -T -c blowfish vncuser192.168.1.1.