VNC secure Tunneling using (Windows) Putty Client

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com>
> Hi All,
>
> Referencing this site
>
> http://freesco.no-ip.org/VNC/VNC_PuTTY_HOWTO.pdf
>
> but having some problems. (Can't get it to work)
>
> Am I correct to think that when one does SSH_remote forwarding, by
creating
> the local port (5095) to be forwared to remote server port 5901, we are in
> effect creating the port 5095 locally? Meaning, if I do a nmap of the
> localhost I would see that port 5095 is open??
>
> Cos when I do it, port 5905 is _not_ open and I can't connect to the
remote
> vncserver.
>
> Can anyone shed some light?

Look here:

http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html

HTH,

Ben