hiya, On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:24:54AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On the laptop I'm using the ssh command line: > > ssh root@home-machine -R 143:localhost:143
to clarify, you're doing this so you can tunnel an imap connection to your home machine on your laptop? if so, then you actually want to do ssh username@home-machine -L 1143:localhost:143 -R means forward the remote port to the local port, and -L means forward the local port to the remote port, which is what i'm guessing you actually want. i get confused by this every time i have to use it. for example, ssh foobar@somemachine -L 2222:localhost:22 will let you connect to somemachine's ssh port by ssh'ing to localhost on 2222, if you ever had the need to ssh-tunnel your ssh connections... note that since imap is already running, you don't have to ssh over as root either, as long as the source port is above 1024. hth --sean
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