GUI to Tunnel VNC Over SSH on Windows

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I tend to log into a lot of remote sites, and typically the setup we have is: the gateway is running OpenWRT with an SSH server, there are client machines behind the NAT running UltraVNC. While I have no problems tunneling my VNC connections through that SSH server running on the gateway, lately I've been needing to let other people have access to those machines too.

I would like a GUI program that would let me set up, in advance, connections to machines and just click to connect to them.

That is, the software would take care of creating the SSH tunnel and opening the VNC viewer. The goal is that I could give this software to someone else and they'd have a list of machine names they could click on and start using VNC though (they'd be prompted for authentication credentials, but that should be about it).

Does a software like this exist, or am I going to need to throw together some C# foo?

Thanks!

Update:

With regard to the PuTTY solution:

This is the way I currently do it. The problem is that my users sometimes need to VNC into multiple machines at once, creating standard profiles like that messes up this solution (e.g., what local port to use without having the user know what to connect to in the VNCViewer software).

For instance, if I save sessions that are of the form (using the ssh cli-style commands):

ssh -l username hostname.com -L 5900:remoteHost_number_1:5900
ssh -l username hostname.com -L 5900:remoteHost_number_2:5900
ssh -l username hostname.com -L 5900:remoteHost_number_3:5900

When the user connects in VNC, all they need to know is to connect to localhost. The problem arises when they want to connect to both remoteHost_number_1 and remoteHost_number_2 at the same time. Then my user will need to know what port their local machine is listening on, and that's what I'm trying to avoid. For the trivial case of three, this is a non-issue, but when the number of systems is large it becomes a problem. This problem can be further exacerbated when there's hostname1.com, hostname2.com, etc each with a similar number of systems behind the NAT.

I'd also like to have as few steps in this process as possible as my users aren't typically the most technical bunch.

Thanks again!

Best Answer

putty will do the trick

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