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Assuming you have SSH access to the remote AstLinux box itself, either directly or via a VPN, you can very easily enable a local SOCKS Proxy on your web browser machine and use SSH to tunnel the proxy to your remote AstLinux box. | Assuming you have SSH access to the remote AstLinux box itself, either directly or via a VPN, you can very easily enable a local SOCKS Proxy on your web browser machine and use SSH to tunnel the proxy to your remote AstLinux box. | ||
- | The follow | + | The following |
===== Establish local SOCKS Proxy ===== | ===== Establish local SOCKS Proxy ===== | ||
+ | Modern SSH clients have built-in support for establishing a local SOCKS server which then can be tunneled to a remote SSH server. | ||
- | On your Mac in the terminal type: | + | **-D Local_Port** |
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+ | where SSH's SOCKS server listens on port " | ||
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+ | To establish a local SOCKS Proxy... | ||
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+ | Go to Terminal: | ||
ssh -D5000 root@pbx | ssh -D5000 root@pbx | ||
- | login as normal, leave this session open, make sure you don't see any "bind: Address already in use" after the ssh login message. | + | login as normal |
Then go to Firefox: | Then go to Firefox: | ||
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{{: | {{: | ||
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+ | Select " | ||
Click " | Click " | ||
- | Open a new Firefox window, and enter " | + | Open a new Firefox window, and enter " |
===== Disconnect local SOCKS Proxy ===== | ===== Disconnect local SOCKS Proxy ===== | ||
- | When finished, reverse the process... | + | When finished, to disconnect the local SOCKS Proxy, reverse the process... |
Go to Firefox: | Go to Firefox: | ||
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Type " | Type " | ||
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+ | !!Tip ->!! In order to simplify enabling and disabling the web browser proxy settings, most browsers have add-on extensions that allow quickly changing the proxy settings from the browser window without digging into Preferences each time. | ||
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