SSH Tunneling

x43r0

Does anyone know how to connect to a remote server through a ssh tunnel in windows and browse through it.

I keep hitting a brick wall here. I'm connecting using putty by creating a dynamic tunnel with a random port number and a local tunnel using the remote server address.

It connects fine and I login. Then I go into firefox settings and enter localhost and port number in the SOCKS field.

I can browse fine then but when I try to access the internal site I realise that i'm not browsing through a tunnel at all

ntlbell

Your post is a bit confusing.

you just need one dynamic rule

so source e.g. 8080

localhost

Auto/dynamic

localhost 8080 socks

go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ and make sure it see's you as the remote server.

x43r0

Ok thats strange. The tunnel works and the ip confirms it but I still can't access the internal pages. I am redirected to an 'openDNS' page

ntlbell

x43r0 wrote: »

Ok thats strange. The tunnel works and the ip confirms it but I still can't access the internal pages. I am redirected to an 'openDNS' page

What do you mean internal pages?

if your forcing your http requests outside; the box on the other side won't know what you're looking for.

x43r0

ntlbell wrote: »

What do you mean internal pages?

I'm trying to access my exam results which are hosted on a server in my department. Its a moodle page which is only accessible from the college network

ntlbell wrote: »

if your forcing your http requests outside; the box on the other side won't know what you're looking for.

I'm not sure what you mean here

ntlbell

x43r0 wrote: »

I'm trying to access my exam results which are hosted on a server in my department. Its a moodle page which is only accessible from the college network



I'm not sure what you mean here

but can the internal server be accessed by the remote box?

if you tell firefox to go to a remote box to pull the http request, the remote box cann't give you something it knows nothing about.

so for example

if you login to that remote server and open up a text based broswer links or something

can it access the server your exam results are on?

Snowbat

By default, your Firefox will still do DNS lookups locally. If the target site is only resolvable at the remote end, you'll need to enable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in about:config

See Configure Firefox to use the Tunnel also for DNS
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunnel

x43r0

Ya the remote box can see the server, i just pinged it there no prob.

A few lads in my class have done it fine but with mac/linux

ntlbell

Snowbat wrote: »

By default, your Firefox will still do DNS lookups locally. If the target site is only resolvable at the remote end, you'll need to enable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in about:config

See Configure Firefox to use the Tunnel also for DNS
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunnel

Yep, this too.

x43r0

Snowbat wrote: »

By default, your Firefox will still do DNS lookups locally. If the target site is only resolvable at the remote end, you'll need to enable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in about:config

See Configure Firefox to use the Tunnel also for DNS
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunnel

That worked a treat! Thanks a million! Hope I havn't failed now after all that :-/

Hard to believe i'm picking up a computer science degree in a few months eh?

ntlbell

x43r0 wrote: »

Hard to believe i'm picking up a computer science degree in a few months eh?

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