Your administrator should have informed you of the VNC network port to use for your tunnel. Once you have the TigerVNC client installed, you can set up your SSH tunnel.

Once you've downloaded the installer, double click the file and follow the installation instructions.

For Windows, select either the tigervnc-1.11.0.exe or the tigervnc64-1.11.0.exe file to download and install.

Click that, and it should open up a simple TigerVNC connection window.

From there it should prompt you with another Open button.

In your Applications folder, you may need to Ctrl-click on the TigerVNC icon, and click Open.

If you are running MacOS 10.15, you will probably need to do this next step to get it added to your security exceptions to allow it to run.

Once it is downloaded, double click to open the dmg file, then drag the TigerVNC app into your Applications folder.

For Mac, scroll down the list of downloads and look for the TigerVNC-1.11.0.dmg file.

The binary installers are on the site.Ĭlick on the link on the right hand side under Versions, for the latest version of the software, and scroll down through the Downloads section to select the appropriate download for your Operating System type. You will need to install the TigerVNC client on your local system to connect to VNC. Would you like to enter a view-only password (y/n)? nĪ view-only password is not used Download and install the TigerVNC client software We also recommend not creating a view-only password for simplicity. (NOTE: It doesn't ask for the old password.)įollowing is what the response to the command above looks like.

The command prompts you for a new Password, and then to Verify that entry.

You can either use this password (if they have shared it with you for you first connection to the VNCserver), or you can login to the server via SSH ahead of time as your regular user account, and set/change your password with the instructions provided to you by your administrator, which will be something similar to below. The administrator on the Linux server will have set up a temporary VNC password for you on the server to keep that display session secure. Change your VNC password on the remote host

Using VNC over an SSH tunnel versus connecting directly through the VNC ports, adds one additional step that you will need to take when you want to connect, but it will guarantee you don't have any firewall conflicts as the SSH port is generally open for connections. Objectiveĭownload, install and configure the TigerVNC client software to connect through an SSH tunnel for remote GUI access to a Linux host. This article details information on connecting with the TigerVNC client software through an SSH tunnel for remote GUI access to a Linux host.

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