Hello, all - Reading through ssh's man page, I found the -L and -R switches. I've used -L before, but not -R. -R looks... very interesting. So what I'd like to be able to establish is a connection to a machine which is behind a NAT and, well, a whole bunch of network goodies, which makes it not possible to connect directly to this machine from the "outside". >From what I understand by reading the man page, is that I can make an ssh connection to a remote machine, using the -R switch, which opens a port on the remote machine, which is then redirected to the local machine, on a port of my choosing. So naturally, I'd like to do something like this - from the client: ssh -l username -R 22:localhost:10002 remotehost I am able to log in to remotehost. I've even used root as the username just for kicks, but I am then presented with the following error regardless: Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen on port 22 What I can make of this is, I believe, a conflict with sshd. I would want the connection to be made TO the local port 22. Am I understanding the manpage wrong? Is my syntax wrong? What's the deal? Thanks! -dant
