Accessing SSH tunnel from third machine

Question

I have set the following ssh tunneling, to access office machine from home:

[execute from office machine] Setup connection Office -> Home (as Home has public IP). Setup reverse tunnel from office machine to home:

ssh -CNR 19999:localhost:22 homeuser@home

[execute from home machine] Connecting to office from home. Using tunnel from the step 1:

ssh -p 19999 officeuser@home

Now, how can I access my office machine from a third machine, and not the home one ? I can access my home machine from any machine on the internet.

Thanks

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '18 at 15:31

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From the SSH documentation for the -R parameter:

By default, TCP listening sockets on the server will be bound to the loopback interface only. This may be overridden by specify‐ ing a bind_address. An empty bind_address, or the address ‘*’, indicates that the remote socket should listen on all interfaces. Specifying a remote bind_address will only succeed if the server's GatewayPorts option is enabled (see sshd_config(5)).

So you have to use:

ssh -CNR 0.0.0.0:19999:localhost:22 homeuser@home

If you use OpenSSH sshd server on your home server you need to set the GatewayPorts option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to yes.

answered Oct 13 '18 at 15:31

JGK

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This answer doesn’t belong: it’s just as off-topic as the question itself. Please don’t encourage off-topic questions by answering them. – Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica Oct 13 '18 at 16:16
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Maybe this is off-topic, but the answer does belong to the question and is the correct solution, sorry. – JGK Oct 13 '18 at 17:46
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