[geeks] SSH Forwarding a non-local server / OpenVPN

[Jonathan Groll]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:22:33 +0100, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You recall I asked last week about VPN/SSH options with a non-VPN
> router. I decided to explore SSH tunneling and can find plenty of
> information on setting up tunnels to remote *nix machines which is
> grand, by the end of the year our whole system will be Linux based so
> nothing to worry about here. However there is a short-term fly in the
> ointment. Our production systems currently run on a Windows Server box
> (I am slowly attempting to migrate it to a Linux VM but I keep getting
> other stuff land on my plate). I can't SSH into the box (I dare not
> expose any ports on an old Windows Server anyway!) as it has no SSH.
> 
> I only need access to port 80 on it. Is there any way to forward it's
> port 80 to a point on Linux VM/server I can SSH forward? Is this a
> nightmare that's more effort than it's worth?
> 

I have used cygwin to install ssh servers on Windows and port
forwarding, socks proxies, etc all worked fine.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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