Re: Accessing dynamically multiple VNC servers using SSH

From: Sven Hubschmid (shubschmid_at_student.ethz.ch_delete_me)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:12:48 +0200

Darren Tucker wrote:
> In article <40878c1f$1_3@news.bluewin.ch>,
> Sven Hubschmid <shubschmid@student.ethz.ch_delete_me> wrote:
>
>>I have the following networksituation:
>
> [snip]
>
>>Till now fine. But wat I'm looking for is to manage the following
>>scenario:
>>
>>Client A connects over the SSH Client to the SSH Server. The
>>SSH server looks which port he already has forwarded. Because
>>A is the first Client who wants to access a VNC Server, SHH
>>forwars it for example to VNC Server 1. Now client C wants to
>>connect to a VNC Server. C connects over the SSH client to the
>>SSH Server. The SSH Server notice, that already someone is forwarded
>>to VNC Server 1 thus the SSH Server forwards the client C to the
>>VNC Server 2. And so on....
>>
>>One important thing, each client (A,B,C) has a dynamic IP.
>>Does someone have an idea how to solve this? Maybe I need some kind
>>of proxy?
>
>
> Use a "dynamic port forward" (eg OpenSSH's -D) and socksify your VNC
> client ?
>
This could be possible. Do you have a link to read more about the
dynamic port forward feature of SSH (the man page I red already)?

Regards,
Sven

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