Tunneling (or Putty) for Mac

Hi All ..
I'm new here and i need a bit of help with the mac
Basically what i need is a putty for my mac
Now i know i don't "really" need one - since i have the terminal, but the thing is i don't know how to define slightly more complex connection settings - such as tunneling. (i want to have the possibility to use my UNI computer from home)

if anyone knows the answer, you'll be saving me many hours! thanks!

Tunneling?

If you simply want to ssh into a remote computer:

ssh <ipaddress> -l <username>

You're most likely talking about X forwarding, and that depends on the version of your Mac?

Start with: http://dyhr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-enable-x11-forwarding-with-ssh-on-mac-os-x-leopard/

Regards

if you want to tunnel a port, it's pretty easy at the command line.

sudo ssh username@servername -L:80:192.168.x.x:80 for instance will invoke a tunnel for port 80 to the specified address.

You need to use 'sudo' if your going to tunnel ports < 1024 as they are privileged

need help with terminal for mac

Hi All. This is gonna be a little long . Please bare with me
I've been trying to use terminal just like spaceyoo for months , but I've never been able to. Please please help me. I'm gonna show u how I connect using putty in windows and I need someone to help me connect using mac. I really don't understand most of the terminology you guys use here like tunneling and port forwarding. I just wanna connect.

In windows The changes I made in putty were the following:

In the Seesion window, I typed in the IP address: ftp.xxxx.uni.edu Port 22 connection type: SSH

Then, when you click the + sign besides connection and the + besides SSH, click Tunnel and then you can see new spaces. In the space Destination I typed: www-yyyy.uni.edu and the source port : 8000.

Finally, when I go to internet explorer, tools, options, I click on connection tab then Lan setting. In the window that appears, under proxy server, Address: localhost, Port: 8000.
With these settings I can type in my username and password and get connected.


In mac, When I open Terminal, I was told type ssh -X 8000:localhost:8000 [email protected]

then type in my username and password to get connected. When I do that terminal shows a text similar to that shown by putty after I type in my user name and pass. But when I open Safari nothing happens.
I tried to go to Preferences, network, advanced, proxies, web proxy http and play with it but I couldn't.

I asked many people and some told me to type in ssh -l or ssh -N but none could work. I also tried to ssh -l [email protected] without the localhost bit but no luck.


I've been using windows for 5 months and I hate it. I wanna connect my mac and get my life back to normal.

Thanks

With Windows and putty - you are doing the same thing. Basically you ssh to a server - then port forward through that server a tcp port for some service from another computer usually behind the firewall. So I think you are close but I believe you need to type (note capital L is important)


Once you type that in - you will be portforwarding port 8000 of www-yyyy.uni.edu to localhost:8000 - 127.0.0.1:8000. Also the ssh command opens a ssh session on ftp.xxxx.uni.edu - you need to keep that ssh session alive so that ssh keeps forwarding port 8000. The easiest way to keep it alive is to run top. Anyway - it seems that you are going to a website of some sort - so the proxy should be fine again - localhost, port:8000

Wow man. You are truly a legend. Thank you very much.

Everything works fine except for µtorrent and Mail! I thought mail uses the same settings Safari uses. but it isn't a big deal

Thanks again Ivan.

Is there a way to automate the log-in process, instead of typing in the code line and my password every time?
and can I connect my iphone to the internet just like I did with my mac. I actually bought an ssh application but it couldn't help.

Thanks