Hi Chris.

It sounds like you picked one of the more challenging things to do :)

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:27:17PM -0500, chris watson wrote:
> I am having some difficulty understanding the the tunneling concept.
> Specifically I am trying to tunnel ftp through a secure shell
> connection.  What I would like to do is this:

Which concept? Local or Remote?

> open a port on my local machine that gets redirected to the ftp port on
> a remote machine.  this works.....I can authenticat to the ftp service
> but I can't run any of the commands associated with ftp.  I get the
> following type error messages:

Right. You have to use FTP in passive mode.  The control port (21) doesn't
tunnel right.

-Anne
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