Tag: cygwin

How to Tunnel VNC over SSH with PuTTY on Windows XP or Windows 2000

At the prompt, type ssh-host-config -y (the “-y” option automatically answers “yes” to the three questions below) If the script asks about “privilege separation”, answer yes If the script asks about “create local user sshd”, answer yes If the script asks about “install sshd as a service”, answer yes When the script asks about “CYGWIN=”, answer ntsec To start the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands: net start sshd cygrunsrv ––start sshd To stop the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands: net stop sshd cygrunsrv ––stop sshd To harmonize Windows user information with Cygwin, open a Cygwin window and type the following commands, one line at a time: mkpasswd ––local >

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