On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:07:18AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I try to connect to a remote computer using ssh and then tunnel the ftp > > connection back to by computer using > > > > ssh -R 1234:<local machine>:21 ... > > why do you expect to be able to tunnet 'ftp' like that? ftp sends only > commands via port 21. data is sent via a seperate connection (data is both > the output of 'ls', and files you transfer with 'get' or 'put'). > > it looks like you _might_ be able to do what you wanted, _if_ your could > force the 'data' port to always be the same port on the remote machine, > and then tunnel that port too via ssh. if this is possible, perhaps > someone on the list can show us how to do that.
However IIRC there is no inherent limitation in the ssh protocol for starting tunnels on the fly. I vaugly recall that mindterm had a feature of "on-the-fly" creation of ssh tunnels for ftp connections. Though in their page I only see an "ftp proxy" mentioned: http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/techspec.php -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]