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Re: Forwarding ports via ssh



 On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:54:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: 
> 
> I made a mistake in my description: I _CAN_ telnet to localhost 40110 
> from the command prompt in my Debian box, and it _DOES_ get to the POP 
> server at the remote site. 
> 
> I _CANNOT_ telnet to port 40110 on the Debian box from the laptop's DOS 
> prompt: I get "connection refused" errors. 
> 
> Thunderbird is running on the XP laptop, and it also shows an error when 
> I try to retrieve mail for the account: the POP server is set to port 
> 40110 on 192.168.10.90. 


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