Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote:
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> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these
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> curious markings:
> > security note:
> > vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure.  any
> > ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only.  even
> > better, try a knocking daemon.
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> This is why you set up an SSH tunnel between the two machines. The
> Handbook (as always) shows how to do this, with examples.
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> Best Regards,
> Christopher Nehren

To forward a VNC session through SSH, the user will need to install a 
SSH application on the Windows computer.  PuTTY is a free example, and 
is available at:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Andrew Gould