Iain Lane wrote: > Adam Bagnall wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 09:37 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: >>> Hello, >>> ... >>> Is there a way to gain access to that machine through the firewall? is >>> there something she can do on her machine (like connect to my machine >>> via SSH and forword port 999 on my local machine to port 22 on her >>> machine) and then i can connect to my local machine:999 and gain access >>> to her machine, is such a thing possible? if yes, how do I go about it? >>> ... >> I think you can solve this problem using a reverse ssh tunnel. There's >> quite a bit of info on google. Someone else might know more but I've >> never tried it. > > This should work. It will be even more robust if you use autossh to > automatically reconnect should either end go down. The command you want > to run on her machine is something like: > > screen autossh -R9999:localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Then SSH to 9999 on your machine to get to hers. Another option to > consider is a VPN, but this may be overkill for your situation. > > Hope to help, > Iain >
Presumably this could be run at bootup from rc.local? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
