Best I can tell from google research to tunnel port 5050 data for the purpose of getting empathy to work I would type:<br><br>     netcat -L port:host:hostport <br><br>in my case it would be:<br><br>     netcat -L 5050:?:?<br>


<br>how would I figure out the last two variables?<br><br>I was told by Ed to see what is listening to 5050 after I am set up.... WAIT!<br>This is the command I was told to issue:<br><br>mike@mike-desktop:~$ netstat -ta<br>
Active Internet connections (servers and established)<br>Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      <br>tcp        0      0 localhost:ipp           *:*                     LISTEN     <br>
tcp        0      0 mike-desktop.loca:56160 nuq04s01-in-f83.1:https TIME_WAIT  <br>tcp        0      0 mike-desktop.loca:33693 mail.google.com:https   ESTABLISHED<br>tcp        0      0 mike-desktop.loca:34311 webcs207.msg.sp1.y:mmcc ESTABLISHED<br>
tcp        0      0 mike-desktop.loca:50208 mail.google.com:https   ESTABLISHED<br>tcp6       0      0 localhost:ipp           [::]:*                  LISTEN     <br>mike@mike-desktop:~$ <br><br>and it seems to me that I would type :<br>
<br>     netcat -L 5050:localhost:?<br><br>I am lost again. Would it possibly be &#39;ipp&#39;?<br>-- <br>:-)~MIKE~(-:<br>