Tunnel of Love

Quick and easy SSH tunneling:

Scenario: I'm at home and I need to connect to a gui at work. The problem is that I cannot get to the gui directly through the firewall.

Solution: An SSH tunnel to proxy the connection from...since SSH is allowed through.

Systems Involved:
1. Home Computer (Windows with Cygwin & ssh)
2. Work computer (Solaris with SSH running)
3. HTTPS gui server.

Step 1: Create a listner on the work computer that will forward the ssh connection to the https server.
work-computer # ssh -R 22:guiserver:443 username@work-computer

Step 2: Create a listner on your home computer that will forward the https connection through SSH to the work computers proxy.
home-computer # ssh -L 8080:localhost:22 username@work-computer

Step 3: Test
https://localhost:8080


* This is nothing new
** This is my cheat sheet