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Re: cygwin port forwarding


Greetings, Ross Boylan!

> Can non-cygwin applications "see" the ports ssh in cygwin sets up for
> forwarding?  I did some tests on Windows 7 and found that, although the
> forwarding was clearly in effect for commands I ran in the cygwin shell,
> it did not seem to be accessible to the regular Windows version of
> Thunderbird.

> The local port I forwarded was not privileged.  I used no Windows admin
> privileges.

netstat -aon

Curious, what "tests" you did instead of getting the data straight from OS?
And what exactly you've tried to do? If you're looking for proxy through SSH
tunnel, you'd be better off with PuTTY -D 1080 and IE using SOCKS proxy.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 24.06.2012, <04:05>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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