will mindterm enable you to tunnel x11 and get an xterm remotely?
Mats Andersson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Daniel Woods wrote:
> > not what FrontPage (Yuck) or other HTML editors use. From my
> > understanding of tunnelling, the user would have to open up a ssh
> > session with my server first and then let their FTP client (or HTML
> > editor) send the files. But first their SSH config for my site would
> > have to set up port forwarding (tunnelling) from local 21 to remote
> > server (which port ?).
>
> Two cases:
>
> 1) Your ftp server is reachable directly from your users' machines AND
> your users' ftp clients support passive mode AND your ftp server doesn't
> mind data and command connections from different ip addresses (your ssh
> server and your user's client).
>
> Then what you describe is right e.g.
>
> ssh -L 21:yourftpsrv:21 yoursshsrv
>
> Will set up a tunnel which will forward the command channel of the ftp
> connection. The data channels will go directly (unencrypted) to your ftpd.
>
> 2) Your ftp server is NOT reachable directly from your users' machines AND
> your users' ssh client supports ftp proxying (e.g. MindTerm from
> www.mindbright.se/mindterm can do passive mode ftp, I think vandyke has
> this functionality too in their SSH2 stuff, haven't tested it).
>
> Example: set up a local tunnel in MindTerm with protocol ftp on port 21
> locally to port 21 on ftp server and point your ftp program (passive mode
> enabled) to port 21 locally and you're fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Mats
