Comment on Using a SSH tunnel/ port forward to connect a TV?

eksb@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ok there is a TV and a pi on network 1 and a server on network 2, the pi can connect to the server through SSH or VPN or whatever is needed. The TV would like to connect to the server, however it can’t run a VPN or anything like that so exposing the server would be a risk.

  The SSH command on the pi is SSH -L 1234:localhost1234 remote_server

  The ufw command was run on the pi, with the intention to allow the TV to access the forwarded port on the pi

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  • eksb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ssh -L 1234:localhost:1234 remote_server binds the RPi’s localhost:1234 to remote_server’s localhost:1234. You want to bind the port to something on the RPi that the TV can hit, so something like ssh -L 192.168.1.5:1234:localhost:1234 remote_server, where 192.168.1.5 is the RPi’s address.

    I think you also want -N on the ssh command.

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    • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That worked thanks, I didn’t know you could put an address like that in the -L command, and the -N is correct here too

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