I am trying to browse a wiki that runs on a server inside one domain from another domain.
The wiki is accessible only on the LAN, but I need to browse it from another LAN to which I connect with an SSH tunnel ...
Here is my setup and the steps I did so far:
~.ssh/confing on wikihost:
Host gateway
User kisteuser
Port 443
Hostname gateway.companydomain.com
ProxyCommand /home/myuser/bin/ssh-https-tunnel %h %p
# ssh-https-tunnel:
# http://ttcplinux.sourceforge.net/tools/stunnel
Protocol 2
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key_dsa
LocalForward 11069 localhost:11069
Host server1
User kisteuser
Hostname localhost
Port 11069
LocalForward 8022 server1:22
LocalForward 17001 server1:7100
LocalForward 8080 www-proxy:3128
RemoteForward 11069 localhost:22
from wikihost
myuser@wikihost: ssh -XC -t gateway.companydomain.com ssh -L11069:localhost:22 server1
on another terminal:
ssh gateway.companydomain.com
Now, on my companydomain I would like to start firefox and browse the wiki on wikihost.
I did:
[email protected] ~ $ ssh gateway
Have a lot of fun...
kisteuser@gateway ~ $ ssh -D 8383 localhost
user@localhost's password:
user@wikiserver:~>
My .ssh/config on that side looks like that:
host server1
localforward 11069 localhost:11069
host localhost
user myuser
port 11069
host wikiserver
forwardagent yes
user myuser
port 11069
hostname localhost
Now, I started firefox on the server called gateway, and edited the proxy settings to use SOCKSv5, specifying that the proxy should be gateway and use the port 8383...
kisteuser@gateway ~ $ LANG=C firefox -P --no-remote
And, now I get the following error popping in the Terminal of wikiserver:
myuser@wikiserver:~> channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
Confused? Me too ...
Please help me understand how to properly build the tunnels and browse the wiki over SOCKS protocol.
update:
I managed to browse the wiki on wikiserver with the following changes:
host wikiserver
forwardagent yes
user myuser
port 11069
hostname localhost
localforward 8339 localhost:8443
Now when I ssh gateway I launch Firefox and go to localhost:8339 and I hit the start page of the wiki, which is served on Port 8443.
Now I ask myself is SOCKS really needed? Can someone elaborate on that ?
