VNC Access to Remote Centos Host from Windows 10

Question

So, I have a CentOs 7 linux box that is running a tigervnc server. I can ping the vncserver_ip_address box from windows. I'm able to connect to the vnc session from another linux box on the same network with the following terminal command:

vncviewer -RemoteResize=0 -shared localhost:1 -via vncserver_ip_address

I would like to also connect from a windows 10 box.

1. I've tried various ways of starting tigervnc's vncviewer.exe on windows but how do I give vncviewer.exe the -via flag? Is the syntax different in windows?
2. Once it's working, I would like to store all of these switches in a .vnc config file for windows and linux. I've searched online but can't seem to find a template. Does anyone have an example?

Answer 1

the "via" flag indicates a connection via ssh. On windows it is necessary to use putty or enable the ssh client.

ssh -L 5902:[vnc host]:5901 [ssh host]

then:

vncviewer localhost:2

More info can be found here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/sshvnc.html

And here: https://pureinfotech.com/install-openssh-client-windows-10/