Comments on: SSH Port Forwarding on Mac OS X

By: Mahdi

Mahdi — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:45:18 +0000

Thanks for the useful post! Save me the hour :)

By: Connect Mac OS X with Linux Server « Bo Yang's Blog

Connect Mac OS X with Linux Server « Bo Yang's Blog — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:40:16 +0000

[...] RealVNC, and 5900 is the port number of the VNC in Linux. For details about this command, refer to SSH Port Forwarding on Mac OS X. Then start RealVNC, enter “localhost:5901” and your VNC [...]

By: Eelco Wiersma

Eelco Wiersma — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:01:03 +0000

Excellent post! Now I can finally delete those ugly tunneling apps. This works perfect with the Automator.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:58:35 +0000

Thank you very much. This saved me a lot of time, and worked on the first try.

Two suggestions (trying to build my own positive karma :-) ):

1: If you end the command with &, it will politely run in the background, giving you your Terminal window back.

2: You wrote “The -L parameter specifies that this is a remote-to-local tunnel.” This is backward to my understanding. -L means that I connect to that port locally, and my data is sent off to the remote host, so I would call it a “local-to-remote tunnel.” I say this having a: read the ssh man page, and b: run it and it actually worked. :-) Don’t know if what you wrote was a typo, or just a failure of my understanding, but I thought I’d mention it in case anyone else had the same failure of understanding.

Again, thank you very much for this page.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:51:26 +0000

Hi,

could you possibly give me a hand?

I own a Mac OSX Lion and I want to set up a port forwarding (local-to-remote?) in order to enable Click’n'Load kind of access between my computer and my NAS server which is running pyLoad. I just need to make that all the packets coming in on port 9666 will be forwarded to my NAS box. I want to set this up as a service so it is enabled at boot time and I’m not prompted with the password all the time.

This is what I’ve done:

Marcs-MacBook-Air:~ marc$ ssh -L 127.0.0.1:9666:[ServerIP]:8100 -N 192.168.0.2 -l admin -p 24
admin@192.168.0.2′s password:
channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed

and I’m following this german guide http://forum.pyload.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=452 (the OP seems to have been mixed port numbers but that’s not a big deal).

Help would be very much appreciated. I thank you in advance. Cheers on your post, very very helpful!!!! ;)

By: shook100

shook100 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:48:00 +0000

Got the port forward working on the first try after a quick read. Karma++ for you – many thanks.

By: Jack Tseng

Jack Tseng — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:22:59 +0000

For internet access:
1. You need to setup an dyndns or noip account
2. You then need to set up port forwarding in your router (default port is “22″)
3. Instead use the “192.168.1.11″ LAN address, you would use say “abc.dyndns.org” address where “abc” is what you use as your host name when you setup the dyndns.org account…
Hope this help..

By: Jack Tseng

Jack Tseng — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:01:43 +0000

Joel,

You can type in the following:

“ssh -l joel 192.168.1.11″
Assuming your user name is “joel” and the machine you try to connect to is “192.168.1.11″

Of course, this only work if you are connected on the same network…

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:39:53 +0000

You spent all the time to write this, but did not provide one single example.

Frustrating, to say the least.

By: Dwi Kiansantang

Dwi Kiansantang — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:28:12 +0000

hi Manas,
in windows i used to set port forwarder using SSH secure FTP like this:
port forwarding local addr 1080 rem host dynamic forward

how to do this in MAC

tks in advance