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Archive for February 26th, 2008

OS X (Leopard) Secure Screen Sharing

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Took me a few minutes, but I was able to get OS X new Screen Sharing (dressed up VNC) to tunnel over SSH.  Here’s what I did:
In Terminal:

Tunnel to the machine you want to connect to:  ssh -L 2200:localhost:5900 myuser@mymachine.com
In Firefox (or Safari, etc.): vnc://localhost:2200
That command will launch the Screen Sharing app.  Enter your password, [...]