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Transparent SSH Multi-Hop - Access to network without using shell (Shared connection)

I have a quick question. Apologies if this has been posted already, but I have searched and can't seem to find what I am looking for. I have a localhost , Host 1 and Host 2. The Host 2 machine has ...
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How to connect to a SSH session that was backgrounded with -f -N?

I'm doing some work where I need to pivot off a machine using proxychains so I'm connecting to a system and binding a local port like so... ssh -f -N -D 9000 user@host.com … which returns me back ...
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SSH Tunnel for Samba over SSH Proxy

So I am trying to do something that is relatively simply in theory but my use-case seems to be hard to find since most proxying I find on the internet is in regards to setting up a proxy for your ...
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Remote commands over SSH with Windows PowerShell - Protection against disconnection

I am planning to connect to remote Linux hosts via SSH and call scripts with Windows PowerShell SSH. As far as I understand, if the SSH connection is lost (timeout or connection reset) whilst the ...
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Setting up ssh config file with id_rsa through tunnel

I've been struggling to set up a valid configuration to open a connection with a second machine, passing through another one, and using an id_rsa (which requests me a password) to connect to the third ...
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Getting Ubuntu host's GUI on local machine when using X Window

I am tunneling X Window over ssh on my local OSX machine using XQuartz. Now the GUI of course looks different than what I would get when I start programs on ubuntu locally. Is there a way to make my ...
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Mount remote drive by port forwarding

I have a windows 7 computer at home and a remote windows XP machine with an external USB drive attached to it. I would like to be able to copy files to and from home/the remote USB drive. The problem ...
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How can I use SSH to tunnel to a port that's open on the machine I have access to but not open to the outside world?

I currently use SSH to tunnel my internet connection, using ssh -p <port> -ND <local port> <user>@<ip address>, and this works great. However, I'd like to bind a local port to ...
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Creating a ssh tunnel to transfer files?

For me, networks are a very "opaque" thing, and even with reading a lot of tutorial about SSH, I do not understand how to create a basic tunnel to transfer my files. The configuration is the ...
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Joining windows LANs through SSH tunnel

I have at home a computer (a windows 7 ult machine) I need to use to manage stuff at the office which hosts windows and linux servers. I am able to set up a SSH tunnel (atleast for firefox proxying) ...
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Using WinSCP with SSH server and 2 machine hops

I'm on a windows machine using putty to ssh into my schools server. From there I need to "slogin -XY machine1" and then "slogin -XY machine2" . Ideally, I'd like to use WinSCP to connect and ...
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“noshell” for ssh proxy users

I like to setup a special ssh user which is only allowed to tunnel web traffice through my server. I do not want to make an open proxy. This brings me to my question: Is there a "noshell" shell for ...
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ssh tunnel via specific interface

Client -ssh-> Server --> Internet Normally I initiate an ssh tunnel with: ssh -D 1337 admin@nas On the server I have two interfaces: eth1 and ppp0. Right now it uses eth1 when tunneling, but ...
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Running into errors reattaching to a GNU screen session that tunnels X over SHH

After tunneling X over an SSH connection using screen on the remote, how can I reattach the screen session from another machine and tunnel X to that other machine? I either get "cannot open display" ...
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How can I `ssh -X host` into a Windows 7 machine and have Windows apps open in Gnome?

How can I ssh -X host into a Windows 7 machine and have Windows apps open in Gnome like they would if I were ssh'ing into another Linux machine?
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Limit URL's accessible over a SSH Tunnel

I have a server and I want to offer a tunnel through this server to some of my friends. But I want to limit the sites they can access using this tunnel. My plan was to create a user account without ...
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Dropped ssh/X session, how to pickup where left off?

I am VPN from a Linux box to another. I log in to the other box with ssh -X. I open an X window/program in an attempt to do a software installation. The painful truth is that this software cannot be ...
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SSH tunnel connection refused

I have a remote machine (IP XX.XX.XX.XX) which runs an app written in python/cherrypy which opens a port for http connections on the loopback interface. If I login into the remote machine (using ssh) ...
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Tunnelling from one SSH connection into another one

I have a machine called ic that I can ssh to. There is another machine, fw, that is on a completely different VLAN, and I cannot talk to it. ic is on both my VLAN and the VLAN that fw uses, and so my ...
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Why is my connection via ssh tunneling much slower than other connections to a remote machine?

I rented a small Linux box with an intention to use it as a proxy for netflix etc. When I ssh and run wget my speeds are like 20Mb/s but when I connect with putty and go to speedtest I only get ...
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Does availability of outbound SSH connection means SSH tunnel possible?

At work, my company has lately gone crazy and has started blocking all the sites (Almost all, facebook, gtalk, picasa, hotmail, gmail etc etc). But, I have observed that they allow any outbound SSH ...
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SSH access to office host behind NAT router

I would like to access the ssh port of my office linux host from home. Unfortunately the host is located behind a NAT router. So, the IP address is not publicly available. There is however access to ...