Obsolete

Remote Mac

Open System Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop
- Start
- Open Access Privilege
  - Set Access Privileges to allow “VNC viewers may control screen with password”
  - Give it a password.

local Mac

Install [Chicken of the VNC]
Open a Terminal Window and type

ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 username@remote.mac.addr.com

Start [Chicken of the VNC] and connect to localhost on port 5900 display 0

ssh will tunnel your port 5900 traffic encrypted to the remote Mac.

Secure VNC (MacOS X to Windows XP)

Remote PC

Install VNC [UltraVNC]
- Make sure to set “allow loopback connections”
Install OpenSSH
- Use [CygWin]
  - Download the install and update utility
  - Make sure to select the OpenSSH package (in the Net category)
  - Start CygWin
  - Set the password for the user
  - Configure SSH from the Cygwin console

$ ssh-host-config

- Answer yes to the priviledge separation question and to the create sshd user question
- Answer yes to install ssh as a service
- set CYGWIN=ntsec tty
- Start ssh

 net start sshd

You can later on create a shortcut or bat file to start it automatically

C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat  "-S sshd"

Full details in http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/TIPS0408.html?Open