Re: Putty: tunneling to an FTP server running on the same computer



"DaWall" == DaWall <dawall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

DaWall> Hi, I'm quite new to this i should say. I'm running an FTP
DaWall> server on my computer and I would like for people to connect
DaWall> to my computer using SSH and then I want Putty to forward it
DaWall> to the FTP-server port. Is it possible to do that using
DaWall> Putty?? I've ways that thought was right but it doesn't work.
DaWall> I have a router to if that's the problem.

It is not usually feasible to forward FTP over SSH, for various technical
reasons, although some SSH software do have special support for it. If
you to provide secure file transfer and your users need to have SSH anyway
(under your proposed scheme), just use scp or sftp.

--
Richard Silverman
res@xxxxxxxx

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