@hankh95 wrote:
hankh@Gimli:~$ ssh user1@#home.ip.address.# -L 3689:#home.ip.address.#:3689 -g
user1@#.home.ip.address.#’s password:
bind: Address already in use
Linux silmarillion 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
That bind error has to be coming from your local machine. Doesn’t matter much, though, you can always pick a different address:
ssh [email protected] -L 9999:mt-daapd-server:3689
Then you don’t have to worry about collisions.
There is a firewall on the home network with port 3689 forwarded to the mt-daapd server. (So I do see the server at http://#home.ip.address.#:3689/status.html
Eeek! Don’t do that. Just leave your firewall all locked down. Instead, use the ssh tunnel to connect to the internal machine.
I don’t know how your network is set up. I imagine you have some kind of linux box running as a gateway. Maybe a dedicated machine running a full linux distro, maybe an embedded device like a wrt54g or something.. whatever. Doesn’t matter. Let’s call the outside IP address 70.1.1.25. We’ll call the inside interface 192.168.1.1. In addition, you have a separate mt-daapd server, right? At 192.168.1.2 or something?
Right now, you say you have a firewall rule on the gateway machine that inbound nats anything to 3689 on the outside interface to 3689 on 192.168.1.2, right?
I’m saying don’t do that. Instead, from work, do:
ssh [email protected] -L 9999:192.168.1.2:3689
Then when you do
from your machine at work, you should get the admin page. Then just set up proxy mdns for _daap._tcp on localhost:9999 using mDNSPosixProxy or avahi.
— Ron