Re: Nested SFTP in Nautilus?

[Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin geekspace com>]

Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk pl gmail com> writes:
>
> I have accounts on two machines, but I can only connect to the second from
> the first (It has a firewall with a white list of IP addresses, which
> doesn't include my home address but it does include the first machine). Is
> there a way to make Nautilus connect to SFTP on the second machine? I tried
> to use port forwarding, but it seems like the first machine is firewalled.

It sounds like you're using "-R" port-forwarding, which binds a port
on the remote end; try using "-L", which binds a port on the /local/
end, e.g.:

     ssh -L1234:far-away:22 middleman

Then you should be able to connect to:

     sftp://localhost:1234/

... and your connexion will be forwarded from localhost, through
`middleman', to `far-away'.

Having said that, I can see that some sort of `protocol-nesting' might
be desirable--I occasionally use features like this in Emacs, myself
(via TRAMP). If your are, or someone else is, interested in starting a
project to implement this for Nautilus, maybe TRAMP might be a good
reference as far as overall design goes.

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