[geeks] Irix port forwarding

[Caleb Shay]

Never mind, got it.  I have to run that on the SGI, not my home
machine.  Worked perfectly, thanks.

Caleb

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 16:42, Caleb Shay wrote:
> Almost.  Probably simple to fix from this point:
> 
> bind: Address already in use
> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 139
> Could not request local forwarding.
> 
> But, there is nothing running on port 139 on either my local machine or
> the remote sgi.
> 
> Caleb
> 
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 16:29, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> > But you don't need irix to do any forwarding if it has ssh.
> > 
> > I tunnel VNC all the time for work. I have a machine inside our network
> > that is running the VNC server, it's behind a firewall. I use SSH from
> > my firewall to open a tunnel to the firewall directing all traffic to
> > the VNC machine.
> > 
> > This should work for you....
> > 
> > 192.168.1.1 - Windows box IP
> > 123.123.123.123 - External IP of SGI
> > 
> > ssh -g -l username -N -L 139:192.168.1.1:139 123.123.123.123
> > 
> > give it a try.
> > 
> > shawn
> 
> <snip>
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