Hi there, I recently tried SoftSqueeze for the first time over my internal LAN and was very happy with it.
Now I'm trying to get it working for remote Internet access over SSH. I run a bunch of Solaris machines at home and I already have a public sshd up and running - I use it to tunnel other services I host like cvs. So firewall settings etc. are already set up and work fine for public access to my sshd server. Only snag is, my sshd is not running on the same host as the slimserver, which the softsqueeze documentation says is expected. So I tried to set up a bunch of forwarding tunnels on 9000 and 3483 from the sshd host to the slimserver host, but this hasn't worked. A few questions: a) I created a new unix login account & password for SoftSqueeze SSH access on the host that is running sshd. I would rather not allow this account actual login access, so I initially set the account shell to "noshell" which disables getting to a shell prompt. Does the SoftSqueeze SSH code require an account with an actual login shell to work properly? b) Regarding the SSH connection from SoftSqueeze to the sshd, I assume that there is some kind of implicit port forwarding going on. I have used ssh port forwarding before so I am familiar with the concepts. I set up a tunnel on my sshd host to listen for connections on ports 9000 and 3483 (I'm assuming from sshd) and forward those to the host slimserver is running on. This hasn't worked. So far what I found is that SoftSqueeze needs a full login account to work. I watch the sshd logs when SoftSqueeze attempts to connect and I see a successful SSH login - so username and password are working fine. It then appears that SoftSqueeze reports it cannot tunnel 9000 and 3483, even though I have my tunnel set up and running. I'd be grateful if anyone could explain in a little more detail what is happening on the sshd side when SoftSqueeze connects and tries to set up the tunneling. Thanks in advance! Nico -- nico _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
