[Ilugc] Help on Tight VNC, x11vnc

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Sujith wrote:
> I was thinking about this:
> 
> A machine with a private IP running a server ( say IRC on 6667 ), and another machine
> with a public IP which can access the private machine.
> In this case, a tunnel can be created from a third machine (my home machine, for example) as:
> 
> ssh <public_machine> -L <local_port>:<private_machine>:6667

This is indeed possible and an idea which is probably a good
alternative for the querent.

Kapil.
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