Ssh – connect-to-oracle-db-9i server-using-ssh-tunnel-via-putty

Enter in all the connection information on the main putty screen. Sounds like you will be using port 443 instead of 22 to connect from the outside. Then go to the Tunnels section and put in 5092 for the Source port. Put in localhost:5900 for the destination. Leave the radio buttons to Local and Auto. Click Add so it shows up in the list and then open up the connection

When you open up the connection, you will have access to "localhost:5900" from the perspective of the server. You can access it from your local port 5092.

To connect to the server using vnc, plug in localhost:5092 for the host.

You seem to have mixed up what exactly happens here. ssh -p will tell the ssh client on which port the server is listening, and -D will tell it on which port it should listen locally as SOCKS proxy.

You should use it like this:

ssh -p 8888 -D 5115 user@host

Test it with curl like this:

curl --proxy socks5h://localhost:5115 http://private.example/contacts.html

Source: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/ssh-socks-and-curl/