On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 09:37 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: > Hello, > > My mother's machine in Jordan running ubuntu feisty needs some > maintenance, she is behind a router firewall, which she cannot open a > port on. > > Is there a way to gain access to that machine through the firewall? is > there something she can do on her machine (like connect to my machine > via SSH and forword port 999 on my local machine to port 22 on her > machine) and then i can connect to my local machine:999 and gain access > to her machine, is such a thing possible? if yes, how do I go about it? > > thanx, > Seif A. > > I think you can solve this problem using a reverse ssh tunnel. There's quite a bit of info on google. Someone else might know more but I've never tried it.
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