Timbuktu over SSH (Tutorial)

[legacyb4]

[ref:http://www.afp548.com/Articles/security/sshtips.html]

One of the nice things about having access to SSH is that you can port-forward a connection through an SSH tunnel and know that your connection is reasonably secure compared to an open data stream.

Following the tips given in on afp548.com, I was able to easily get Timbuktu to run through the SSH tunnel and connect to my home OS X machine by doing the following in Terminal:

ssh [servername or IP] -l username -L 10660:127.0.0.1:407

authenticate the SSH connection and once you are in, switch over to Timbuktu and enter the following in the connection name:

localhost:10660

You should immediately be connected to your remote Timbuktu host as if you were connecting through standard TB2 ports.

You can do a lot more with this handy trick; read through the rest of the article and get a feel for what can be done.

Cheers.

 

[legacyb4]

Yes, it is.

They also just released Vapor 1.0 which is a GUI front end for the whole process outlined above.

You need to run SSH Pass key (included) once to set up your environment so that the GUI app will authenticate to the remote server, but once that's done, doing TB2 over Vapor is just a matter of entering four fields and clicking on connect.

Cheers.

Originally posted by testuser
Thanks, this is a good site. Lots of interesting articles on networking.