I assume the receiving machine and necessary routers are listening /passing the necessary ports?
Sometimes it's a simple over site. Fred Roller On Mar 23, 2016 3:43 PM, "Tom Rivers" <t...@impact-crater.com> wrote: > On 3/23/2016 3:10 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > > usage: ssh -L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] > > Here's what I'm trying: > > sudo ssh -L lo.cal.ip.adx:11110:rem.ote.ip.adx:110 > > > > I successfully use the following to tunnel VNC over SSH so I can securely > connect to a remote server at a hosting facility using VNC: > > ssh -f -L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901 user@remotehost sleep 10; vncviewer > 127.0.0.1:25901:1 > If I had to adapt it to your example, I would try this: > > ssh -f -L 11110:127.0.0.1:110 user@remotehost sleep 10; <whatever command > you need to use to get your email> > > The "-f" makes ssh act in the background and the "sleep 10" gives the ssh > tunnel 10 seconds to actually connect before it bails. The next statement > should execute whatever process you need to execute but note that you want > to execute it against the local host's loopback address, not the remote > system's address. You actually target the remote system's IP address using > the "user@remotehost" section. > > Tom > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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