helping remote users

[Jason Staudenmayer]

That's it! THANK YOU

I'll try it this weekend if he has any issues.

Jason
 
 
 
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> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: helping remote users
> 
> 
> Perhaps you simply want to use ssh remote port forwarding. In your 
> scenario, the remote user could ssh to your machine like so:
> 
> ssh -R5555:localhost:22 jasonsbox.domain.com
> 
> This causes localhost:22 on the remote user's machine to be 
> forwarded to yours. Once he connected, you could connect back to 
> his machine by connecting to localhost on port 5555, like so:
> 
> ssh -p 5555 localhost
> 
> You could also run vncviewer in listener mode on your machine. 
> However, I would personally have misgivings about exposing that to 
> the public net without, at a minimum, some sort of firewall 
> restrictions.
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:20:21 -0500 Jason Staudenmayer 
> <jasons at adventureaquarium.com> wrote:
> >Sorry if this might be a newbish question but I can't figure it 
> >out. I have a user that is just starting to use Linux/RedHat and 
> >I'm trying to help as much I can. As most of you know seeing the 
> >screen is the best bet to help. Next best is access to the system. 
> >What I'd like to do is open a port on my firewall that he can 
> >connect to and then I can connect back to his system (kinda like 
> >ssh forward but reverse). I had done this a few years ago when I 
> >had somebody helping me I just can't find what command he had me 
> >use. Anybody know of something like this?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Jason
> >
> >
> >
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