that's all well and good if I'm connecting from a machine where I can 
access a unix shell, but what If I'm connecting from any other variety 
of os (namely, the windows machines here on campus)

thanks
justin


James Spinti wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 03:41 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote:
> 
>>Why would it be a bad idea to open, say, 5801 to the internet?  That's
>>all I would need to open.  I have realVNC running a mini http server
>>that pops up a java applet to run vnc.  This is nice because then I can
>>run the remote desktop from anywhere that has a web browser with java.
> 
> 
> VNC runs unencrypted.  You are better using X forwarding and compression 
> with secure shell.  For example:  ssh -X -C username at host
> Then, from the $ there, run vncviewer 192.168.1.1:0 


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