Re: How to use ssh tunnel to reach a machine on a private network?

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:30, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> > Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > What I am trying to do is to use ssh tunnelling to go direct to one of
> > > the machines on the remote private network, because I need to be able to
> > > run X programs from that machine on my own display. 
>
> ...
>
> > I do this all the time.
> >
> > joe@bill$ ssh -L 10001:localhost:10001 ted.domain.com
> > joe@ted$ ssh -L 10001:localhost:5901 rufus.domain.com
> > joe@rufus$
>
>
> Thank you; that is what I needed.
>
>
> > Adjust port numbers and options as necessary.
>
>
> Are the port numbers just arbitrary selections?

Except for the last port on the destination machine--which needs to be
the port your service is listening on (vnc or X), yes.

In my case, to get a vnc desktop, I setup the tunnel and then run
$ vncviewer localhost:10001

I choose 10001 because the machine I vnc into runs webmin (which is
port 10000).

-Roberto

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