Creating a tunnel for VNC

• After disconnecting from your session (by typing ``exit''), PuTTY will close. Open PuTTY again. In the ``Saved Sessions'' section, choose the name you saved earlier (Section 1.4, where you may have called it ``vrdcXXXX'', see Figure 2), and click on Load.

• In the left pane, choose the ``SSH -> Tunnel'' option (Figure 17).

  Figure 17: Finding the tunnel tab

  

• Fill in the required information:(Figure 18)
  • Source Port: 5901²
  • Destination: ``127.0.0.1:59xx''³where xx, the Destination Port, should be port = display + 5900, where display is the desktop number of your VNC session, which you identified in Subsection 1.6. Do not use the number in the Figure - the number is specific to you, and needs to be read off your login screen.

  Figure 18: Add tunnel dialog

  

• Click ``Add'' to save the information (it should show up in the pane listing all tunnels). Now go back to the ``Session'' option in the left pane (you should get back the configuration options as in Figure 17), and click Save to save the session configuration. You are finished editing this session profile.

• You are now set to initiate the tunnel. Click on the session you wish to use, click on Load to load the settings, then Open to make the connection.