[Thinlinc-technical] SSH tunnel and Windows client

[Peter Astrand]

Hi. ssh.exe is a Windows port of OpenSSH. Although it might be possible to 
use advanced features by creating a "config" file, it is no surprise that 
some parts does not work. For example, the ProxyCommand and "-W" option 
relies on standard input and output redirection, which is a concept which 
differs somewhat on the Windows platform. So to summarize, you can only 
expect SSH functionality which is available through the ThinLinc Client 
GUI to work.

If you need to connect with ThinLinc over another SSH tunnel, I'd 
recommend creating this tunnel separately (either using our ssh.exe if it 
works, or perhaps better using another SSH client such as Putty). Then, 
configure the ThinLinc client to use this SSH tunnel. For this case, the 
HOST_ALIASES configuration parameter is useful (documented on 
http://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/clientconf.html). For example, if 
you have an existing SSH tunnel on localhost:4711, you can set:

HOST_ALIASES=:22=localhost:4711

Good luck,
Peter


On Mon, 5 May 2014, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To connect from outside, we use a bridge host allowing only a tunnel to port 
> 22 of inside hosts.
>
> With Linux client I can connect to an inside host by creating 
> ~/.thinlinc/config file with something like:
>
> Host inside
> ProxyCommand ssh -W inside:22 -i path/of/tunnel/key 
> tunnel at bridge.aime-toulouse.fr
>
> Windows client seems to know file \Application Data\Thinlinc\config but I am 
> unable to use it.
>
> I notice that if I try Thinlinc ssh.exe, I get message:
>
> "Bad owner or permissions"
>
> Is there a way to have a working ssh configuration file on Windows client?
> -- 
> Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE
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