port forwarding

[Stephan]

I am trying to do some fancy footwork to connect to a pol server from work using port forwarding. I ssh to a box at home and forward all local 8080 request to the port of the server. I open the forwarded ports for the public then I connect from my windows box to my linux box(just because getting UO to work on linux is a pain) I can open a connection to the pol server using razor and I can enter the shard but thats as far as it goes. I get an error message saying the client cannot attach to the server. What am I doing wrong?

[Stephan]

I did this:

ssh user@my.box.at.home -L my.box.at.work:8080:my.local.uo.shard:3958 -g

then on my windows box I use razor and in the server details I put my.box.at.work and port 8080

But this leads me to the client that cannot attach error, any ideas?

[AxelDominatoR]

Mmm did you try to put port 3958 in server details?
I'm just guessing, because I don't know inner workings of POL, but if you specify 8080 there, then POL will try to open a listen socket to port 8080, but you are redirecting *to* 3958 *from* 8080

[Stephan]

no, I redirected all calls that is sent to my.box.at.work:8080 to my.local.uo.shard:3958

So If I connect to my.box.at.work, port 8080 it rather sends the data to my.local.uo.shard:3958 via ssh my.box.at.home

[AxelDominatoR]

Yes, but for your POL server to open the port 3958 at my.local.uo.shard, you should put 3958 in servers, and not 8080, I think. Did you try?

I have a redirect trough a router, too, using port 2593 externally and 9999 internally, and I have 9999 in my servers.cfg.

[Stephan]

Yeah, made it the same and it still doesnt work. made both sides 3958

[AxelDominatoR]

Mmm... could it be a client/encryption mismatch with the server?
Client version are you using?

[Stephan]

Its not the client, I use the same client from home and it works