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VNC through SSH forwarding

807557Jun 6 2006 — edited Jun 22 2006

I have a Solaris 10 system at home with the SSH port open to a limited number of hosts including my static IP at work. I would like to access the VNC server on my Mac (running OS-X Tiger) from work through the Solaris SSH server but I haven't been able to do so. I have the forwarding option enabled on the Solaris system in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (AllowTcpForwarding & GatewayPorts are set to Yes). I'm using the following command to start forwarding:

ssh -L 5901:home.mac:5900 username@home.sparc

then run the vncviewer and point to to localhost::5901 but the ssh session returns:

channel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed

when I try to connect. What am I doing wrong?

I should add that port 22 is already being forwarded from the firewall's (with NAT) public IP to the sparc system with SNAT IP address. Could that be the problem?

Thanks!

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