[kdepim-users] ssh tunneling with Kontact?

[Ferdinand Gassauer]

On Sunday 25 October 2009 03:29:21 r bartlett wrote:
> Would anyone out there know if it is possible to use ssh (I'm guessing ssh
>  -X, actually) to access Kontact when it is behind my firewall?
> 
> I have a computer (call it foo) behind firewall computer (bar) and I often
>  run VNC on foo, accessing it with the simple tunnel:
> 
> ssh -L 8888:foo:5900 me at bar.mylinuxbox.net
> 
> I am having a very odd problem that I think might be VNC related and would
>  like to run Kontact directly here on my Ubuntu notebook...but I am not
>  sure I understand tunneling or Kontact enough.  Can I direct Kontact's
>  output from the display to a specific port?
> 
> I often ssh from the firewall (bar) to foo with the command:
> 
> ssh -X me at foo
> 
> And this will bring up Kontact nicely on Bar.  So I am simply hoping to get
>  this to work when there is an additional computer in between.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions, thank you!!!
> 
> 
> 
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did you think about openvpn ?
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cu
ferdinand
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