[Gllug] Port forwarding over ssh...

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, general_email at technicalbloke.com <
> general_email at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently testing the FreeNAS box I mentioned I was about to build a
>> couple of weeks ago. It's going quite well but I've got a little stuck
>> on tunneling over SSH. I have ssh setup with certs and have disabled
>> interactive (challenge response) logons. All seems well with that and I
>> can login with no problems but now I'd like to be able to access the
>> NAS's web GUI via an ssh tunnel (tunneling being a new thing to me).
>>
>> The tutorial I read* said to simply SSH in using the -D option to
>> specify a local port that will then act as a local socks proxy so I
>> typed this...
>>
>> ssh -p 12345 -D 9999 username at 192.168.1.123
>>
>> Sure enough it logged me in and I get a bash prompt. Sadly though when I
>> set firefox's proxy settings to localhost:9999 I can't get anything back
>> from the URL http://localhost/ where, AFAICT, I should get back the
>> NAS's admin login page.
>>
>> I don't know whether this is because the SSH/SOCKS tunnel isn't actually
>> up and running, whether running the above command should actually give
>> me a prompt at all, whether the URL I am entering into firefox isn't
>> right or if the firefox proxy settings are actually correct so I'm not
>> sure how to proceed. I'd appreciate some suggestions as to how to
>> check/rule out some of the above, or a simple correction if I've made a
>> schoolboy error.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Roger.
>>
>>
>>
>> *this one is for drupal but I figure it should apply generally...
>>
>> http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/beef-your-drupal-security-apache-modrewrite-and-ssh
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Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> instead of http://localhost/, do http://192.168.1.123/
>
> Andy
>   


Yeah I tried that, no joy, thanks anyway though. Interestingly I do get
an empty white page instead of an error message :/  Is there a simple
way to test if the tunnel is up? Manually send a GET request via telnet
maybe??

Roger.


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