I need to learn to do my research before I ask questions.... I figured it out.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

hey... look at that.... I got yahoo to work! can I get my windows live id to work on empathy?

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

So then it would be

     ssh -L localhost:5050:?

where would I tunnel empathy too? I mean empathy is on this machine,,,, I just want to make it available to everyone. Should I put an astriks  there?

Then I suppose for an address to tunnel to I would put the yahoo server address (scsa.msg.yahoo.com). Is this right? Would it look like this:

     ssh -L localhost:5050:* scsa.msg.yahoo.com

I am so grateful for the help:)

One further question, which file would I put this line into to make it available to all users? Right now there is only me but who knows in the future!

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6@gmail.com> wrote:

Port = a port on your local computer to use to represent the foreign service.  So in your above case, the 5050 would be your local port and the service would be available as localhost:5050
 

Host = The machine running the service

HospPort = port the service is running on on the remote machine.

Example:
Many people before webmin added encryption would ssh tunnel to the webmin instance.  Lets say you wanted to monitor a machine at 1.2.3.4 that was running Webmin on its default port of 10000.  But you also ran Webmin on your local machine on its default port of 10000.  Both instances were run only against localhost, for security reasons.  You would pick a local port, say 10001 (can not use 10000 because it is being used by the local instance), then you would issue your tunnel command as such:

 # ssh -L 10001:127.0.0.1:10000 me@1.2.3.4

simply stated, this command would create a ssh tunnel for username me, at 1.2.3.4.  Once established, it will create a tunnel to that machine's localhost instance port 10000, and tunnel it to your local machines port 10001.

Now you would be able to access webmin on your machine at localhost:10000 and the remote machines webmin at localhost:10001

I assume you are trying to do something similar to this, and hopefully this example will assist you.

Kevin Fries
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