Creating a secure SSH Tunnel to connect to a Remote Mac from Windows or another Mac.

This tutorial is a journal of the techniques I use to connect to a remote Mac from a Windows PC or another Mac.. The SSH part of this was learned predominantly from a very helpful video called “How to use your Mac from anywhere” on a website called howto.diveintomark.org. I’d really like to thank Mark Pilgrim for taking the time to create such a helpful video. I needed to re-sort, update and split the information into it’s constituent parts and then combine those with other information I have researched to create a text how-to for my needs.

Creating a Secure SSH Tunnel for VNC

From Client Windows PC to a Remote Mac Workflow
1. Creating a SSH Key pair using PuTTY tools
2. Installing the Public Key on the host Mac
3. Installing an appropriate VNC server on the Host Mac
4. Setting up Dynamic DNS access
5. Firewall protecting port access on the Host Mac
6. Using “UltraVNC” to connect to the Mac.


From Client Mac to a Remote Mac Workflow
1. Creating a SSH Key pair using PuTTY tools
2. Installing the Public Key on the host Mac
3. Installing an appropriate VNC server on the Host Mac
4. Setting up Dynamic DNS access
5. Firewall protecting port access on the Host Mac
6. Using “Chicken of the VNC” to connect to the Mac.


Alternative remote connections solutions
Back to my Mac (Mac to Mac)
TeamViewer (Mac/PC to Mac/PC)
iChat Remote Control (Mac to Mac)