Hi, (Got this working, but slightly confused as to what happened) I upgraded to FC6 over the weekend and found that my normal port forwarding trick to get Samba access to my home machine through a proxy stopped working, before I had something like this (running cygwin ssh): ssh -L 10.0.0.1:139:atlas:139 ian@xxxxxxxx -f -N -i somekey (The strange forwarding from 10.0.0.1 is to overcome the fact that Windows will only try this port for Samba. The login at 10.0.0.1 is because I have to forward ssh over a proxy). But this started giving me connection refused messages. Trying Putty gave the same result, I also had a go at localhost instead to see if I'd done something funny to my hostname. No success. However, using 127.0.0.1 explicitly works: ssh -L 10.0.0.1:139:127.0.0.1:139 ian@xxxxxxxx -f -N -i somekey Is fine, what I want to know is does this have something to do with IPV6? Either somewhere in samba or in sshd? $ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. ::1 atlas.millroad atlas localhost.localdomain localhost I'm also having a problem with vnc, running a vnc server on localhost I can connect to it from a windows machine, but not from localhost. Could this be related? (Tried with and without compiz, but I haven't done enough work on it yet to describe the problem properly.) -- imalone
