Comments on: Mac OSX Remote Login Access Screencast Part 6

By: OpenDNS and SSH for Mac | George Starcher

OpenDNS and SSH for Mac | George Starcher — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:14:14 +0000

[...] Part Six [...]

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:43:00 +0000

Thanks much for the tips. I think I’ll give rsync a try.rn

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:43:40 +0000

Thanks much for the tips. I think I'll give rsync a try.

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:15:53 +0000

I think that will basically never work. The reason is that the time machine backups are disc images. You would have to mount the image file across the Internet fully before you could begin to use it. You would have much better results with a small portable drive if you want time machine on a laptop. Or use something else to backup individual files rather than as a disc image over the net connnection. I use an rsync command to backup over ssh. Something I have been meaning to make as a screencast addition to this series. But the text how to is on my blog at https://www.georgestarcher.com/?p=113

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:14:56 +0000

Good question. I'll bet George will chime in , but look at this http://www.tri-edre.com/ I've not tried it but ti seems to do what you are asking. I'll see what else I can find Ken.

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:54:47 +0000

Not sure if this is possible or not, but I thought I'd ask. I back up my MacBook using Time Machine across the local network to an external drive on a Mac Mini at home. I was away from home recently, and had a need to retrieve a previous version of a file from my Time Machine backup. It would be nice to be able to somehow use the iTerm secure ssh tunnel from the MacBook back to the Mac Mini to access the Time Machine backup file, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it. Is this where you would need to use MacFuse or something else?

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:54:45 +0000

Thanks for your quick response. It was just the socks proxy that wasn't working for me. However, I have tried it again, and it is all working now just fine. Not sure what I was doing wrong before.

Thanks again for the great series!

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:29:01 +0000

make sure screen sharing is not active on the laptop you are trying to connect using. If it is on at your laptop then port 5900 is already in use when you try and open it again using iterm.

If you are talking just the socks proxy for web surfing check that you used a high port like 8000 in the iterm ssh command then point at that port in the proxy settings to local host.

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:28:26 +0000

Great job on this series! I have had one problem, however, on this part 6. After setting up the SOCKS proxy, when I try to go into Safari, it doesn't work. I get an error message in iTerm: “channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed”. Sounds like some setting on the home machine needs to be changed? I am running OS X 10.5.5 on both machines.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Looking forward to surfing securely from open hot spots!

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:38:48 +0000

You can use the ARD client over the connection. To the machine you forward 5900 TCP to. ARD just uses the VNC port. I just aim ARD at localhost instead of using chicken of the vnc.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:18:50 +0000

That was cool. Thanks for this great series. In a future segment can you demonstrate how to pass your VNC traffic through ssh either using Apple Remote desktop or the built in screen sharing app in OSX.5. I know Apple Remote Desktop offers to do this by selecting one of the security options, although since I changed the ssh listening port on my Apple router, Apple Remote desktop can't initialize the connection. Also since Iam now using key authentication I am not sure if it will be supported by ARD. Any assistance will be helpful. Thanks again guys for this great series.

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:32:58 +0000

=) Sorry for the wait. The idea was to really teach the topic not just a quick method of doing something without building up the understanding.

By: Hai

Hai — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:38:22 +0000

This is the part I have been waiting for a while now. Thanks guys. I am going to try it out.