From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 21:50:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3140F16A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558C743D3F for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA704534; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:50:18 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: "Willie Viljoen" , "Marco Molteni" , "Helge Oldach" Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:50:18 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200312120926.KAA06641@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> <002e01c3c096$f5e57970$0a00a8c0@arista> In-Reply-To: <002e01c3c096$f5e57970$0a00a8c0@arista> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312151650.18243.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh tunnels and Xvnc - (yes, I know... What? not again!?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 05:50:57 -0000 On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:01 pm, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > >from home you double tunnel: > > >LOCALPORT=6333 > > >REMOTEPORT=5901 > > >ssh -t -L $LOCALPORT:localhost:12945 work1 \ > > > ssh -L 12945:localhost:$REMOTEPORT work2 > > > > As home is a W2k box, ssh won't probably work exactly like this... > > > > Putty supports a "don't allocate a pseudo-terminal" option to achieve > > the effect of ssh's "-t" option. (Required, otherwise work1 will bark.) > > PuTTY is problematic though. There is a way to get it to work exactly like > this. A Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 port of OpenSSH with an installer is at > http://lexa.mckenna.edu/ > > The port installs a small subset of Cygwin and uses it to provide full > OpenSSH functionality, so you can get SSH as it is on UNIX from the Windows > command prompt. > > Will Neat! thanks, now I have to try it out (which requires a few moments at home uninterupted... good luck to me!) And thanks to everyone who helped with this... I was getting majorly confused... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824