VNC through firewalls/routers

1. Start vncserver at an available port. Usually vncserver listens on port numbers 5900 and upwards. So, if you start vncserver on the Remotehost with

   Remotehost>vncserver :50

   then the server will be listening at port number 5950. Verify with netstat command.

2. On localhost, open an ssh session to Remotehost with:

   localhost>ssh -C -g -L 5940:Remotehost:5950 Remotehost

   Supply password if necessary and login.

   This enables forwarding of local port 5940 to Remotehost's port 5950

3. Start vncviewer on localhost, port 5940

   localhost>vncviewer :5950

   Hopefully you should see a password prompt.