Author: Stephen Nelson-Smith Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] Reverse Tunnel and NX
I have set up a reverse ssh tunnel from a machine behind a firewall
which allows no inbound traffic. This is great - I can now ssh to
localhost on the machine where the tunnel terminates, and get onto the
box. However, I want to use NX, and the machine where the tunnel
terminates isn't my workstation - it's just a machine with a shell
account. I wasn't thinking straight, obviously - as if I were on that
machine, and that machine had X and nxclient, I could connect to
localhost. What I want to do is be able to point nxclient on my
laptop at the machine where the tunnel terminates, using nxclient, and
get on the box.
My apologies for emailing first, before some serious googling - but I
won't be near a computer for the rest of the day, and really need an
idea of where to go next by tomorrow morning. My hope is there's
something simple I can do to allow "morris" to listen on the port that
appears as the result of the ssh tunnel. Iptables translation
perhaps? But is there something even easier?