SSH Tunnel Issue

[der.hans]

Am 29. Nov, 2012 schwätzte Eric Cope so:

moin moin Eric,

> Hi all,
> I am trying to connect a Crashplan Desktop to a headless Crashplan engine.
> Following their instructions, I setup an SSH tunnel by:
>
> ssh -L 4200:localhost:4243 eric at e-server.loc
>
> When I start my Crashplan Desktop, which has been configured to use the
> tunnel, I get these error messages in the SSH window:
>
> open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
>
> I've searched quite a bit. I've added these lines to my sshd_config file:
>
> AllowTcpForwarding yes
> PermitTunnel yes
>
> but it does not seem to make a difference. Any ideas?

Did you restart the SSH daemon?

ssh -L 2222:localhost:22 eric at e-server.loc

Does that work? Can you then ssh to port 2222 on your desktop?

ssh -p 2222 localhost

On e-server, can you telnet to port 4243?

telnet localhost 4243

ciao,

der.hans
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