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Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Sweden

What happens if you run the command "telnet localhost 4000" in a command prompt after you have set up the tunnel?
In putty, after you set up the tunnel, do you also connect to the server via SSH and and thus activate the tunnel? Remember that you need the session to be active for the tunnel to be active.

The tunnel is just that, a tunnel and all of the login to the mud must be done via zMUD, telnet etc. All you do in Putty is to set up the tunnel and connect it to the server via some (SSH) account you have there.

Newbie Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 7

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\DAVE>telnet localhost 4000
Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 4000: C
onnect failed

C:\DOCUME~1\DAVE>

When I connect in Putty I don't do anything else. I'm just sitting at the command prompt on the SSH server.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Sweden

Your tunnel is not setup properly, you filled in the two fields (source port and destination) and then clicked add?
Do you load a session afterwards? If so then are you resetting all settings, load the session first, fill in the tunnel information (save the session again if you want the tunnel to be permanent) and then hit "open" to make the connection.

Newbie Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 7

great, that worked! Thanks :)

Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Sweden

Glad that you finally got it working.

Newbie Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

I looked over this forum, and have a similiar problem. I am using freeSSHd to make an SSH server on my localhost, but when I connect, I just get the command prompt. When I check the logs, Putty doesn't even seen to be attempting the tunnel. I'm absolutely sure that the tunnel is part of my settings, however. Any ideas?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:57 pm

Wow I'm glad this thread came up, I just read through it and I've got to say that it is the dogs bollocks!!!

First off I created a session to my ssh shell.

Then within this session I made a local Socks 4/5 compliant port on 1234 as per the settings in the picture and as you can see I already pressed the add button hence the port being listed in the forwarded ports panel.

Then I set the zMUD proxy settings as below.

All I have to do now is use PuTTY to connect to the "Socks Proxy" session and log in, leave it in the background and use zMUD as per normal to connect to any mud I want to while at work Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:36 am

Btw, I should also mention that I have plans for a SSH addon for CMUD sometime after the first public release. Probably in early 2007. It will cost money, so some people might want to still use Putty, but it's going to be better integrated and easier to use.

But Taz, thanks for posting a completely example of how to set this up in Putty. I'm sure it will really help a lot of people.

Beginner Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

Hi all, I used to play mud servers alot, but since fuskermud moved and I didnt get the new address I havent been ablt to really 'get into' another mud :(,
Anyhow, I'm a unix sysadmin,
BTW, plink (which comes with the putty windows install package) works just as well as the putty interface.
"c:\putty\plink.exe" -ssh -l userid -pw password -L 4000:targethost:4000 -i "c:\sshkeys\privatekey.ppk" -2 -N userid@hophost
do plink without any options to get syntax "-2" is to specify SSH-2
Anyhow, as I said, I'm a unix sysadmin, what I always loved about mud clients was the triggering systems. I've, so far, not found a fully functional mud client that does ssh or a ssh client that can do the triggers that mud clients can do.
There is really a market for a ssh client for unix sysadmins which provides the extra functionality of the triggers (and other usefull features).
I did post a message maybe a few years ago, and you said, 'watch this space'.... I'm still watching ;).

Have you considered writing an add-on for putty, rather than an ssh addon for z/cmud?, - like 'z/cmud for putty', couldnt you still sell/license that?

Any... I'll keep checking in every so often and see how your going,

Regs,
Sed.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

There are already plans to write a program once CMUD is established

http://forums.zuggsoft.com/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?page=3&mode=doc&k=2213

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:13 pm

I imagine it's a lot simpler to write SSH for CMUD than it is to write CMUD for PuTTY. And the same functionality will be in zTelnet or whatever Zugg's going to decide to call it, as Guinn says.

Newbie Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5

Beginner Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

Any news on the progression of the ssh addon for c/zmud?

Still looking forward to it, - Irony would be, I'll be working on mainframe in the future and they use standard telnet :)
But, while I still administer UNIX boxes (some 300+ systems) I'll still be waiting for the addon.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:46 am

It's the next large feature planned. Unfortunately, there have been lots of things to fix in the past few versions and it's been delayed.

Wanderer Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 54

Okay do this, d/l the latest version of putty, open the cmd prompt, window+r, type cmd, enter. Then make sure you're in the same directory as putty, then type "putty -L 4000:mudaddress.com:port# -ssh addressofsshserver.com -l name -pw pword"

so replace mudaddress.com with mud address and port with port for the mud and addressofsshserver....with, yep you got it the ssh server and then name with your username and pword with your password. After this connect via zmud to localhost port 4000....This should work I hope

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Beautiful! Yeah, it does work! Really great work.

However, I know the following question might sound dumb, but... Once I'm logged into a mud via localhost 4000 and have made a tunnel to ssh server via Putty, does that mean that people who are able to check that, see my IP as that of ssh server and not the one my PC has?

I apologize in advance if that'd sound dumb :O

Prog

Wanderer Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 54

It doesn't sound dumb, but it does sound like you're multiplaying....anyways :-P.....the ip address will show up coming from the ssh line, so you're fine in that department.