SSH to access firewalled network

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Maruk

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I've asked this in the forums at macosxhints.com, but they don't seem to know...

A friend of mine has a PC running Windows 98 hidden away behind a firewall on an internal network address I don't have access to.

He has used Putty (A PC App that can forward ports via ssh - more info ) to set up a ssh connection and remotely log in to my home computer running Jaguar, and that works fine.

Is it possible for him to set up an ssh tunnel through which I could connect and somehow browse the windows shares his computer is connected to? If so, how?

I've been trying to solve this for a while, but no luck yet.

Any ideas?
 
If you read carefull section 3.5 of the "using putty" document you link to, it mentions how to do this. As far as putty is concerned, it's possible, but some ssh servers don't offer the possibility. The document mentions specifically that OpenSSH3.0 does not; as of OS 10.2.3 the ssh version is OpenSSH3.4p1 - you'd have to try.

So, your friend would connect to your computer using 'remote' instead of 'local' port forwarding, and specify [a] port on your computer to be forwarded to the SMB port on his, and just leave putty running. Then you could connect to those ports on your computer and they would behave just like the SMB server on his. You'd have to look up what ports would be involved, I'm not too familiar with SMB...
 
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