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In order to vnc from home into my work desktop running linux I have to take some quite complicated steps. I have to first connect to the work server linux box and from there I can connect to my work desktop. You can't connect directly to the work desktop at all from the outside world. To add to the problems the work computer has port 5900 filtered so I need can't connect on that port even from the work server.

I can work out how to do this from my home linux machine using ssh port forwarding (e.g. ssh -L) but how can I do it from windows?

Simd
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It sounds like you need a Repeater on your linux. It manages connections to other computers on the network (Proxy) by had a listening port. Then you can connect by using a proxy address (your Linux server's ip and the Repeater port) in the proxy field, and the name of the VNC server in the address field.

Download the Linux VNC Repeater: http://code.google.com/p/vncrepeater/downloads/list
Full guide; Not to setup Linux Repeater: http://www.uvnc.com/docs/uvnc-repeater.html

Diblo Dk
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If you have your Linux machine set up properly, you can do it the same way on Windows by installing Cygwin, which has an OpenSSH package available. Just download the Cygwin setup.exe and make sure the openssh package is selected for installation.

jjlin
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