Tunnel using PuTTY - equivalent for ssh command?

Question

I am trying to connect to a remote server, based on the instructions given on this page:
https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/server.html#ssh-tunnels

It suggests to create a tunnel from my local machine to my server using the command:

ssh -NfL localhost:5006:localhost:5006 [e-mail]

However my local machine is Windows - being a beginner programmer I have trouble figuring out how to reproduce the above mention command, but with PuTTY.

Could anyone help me out with that?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can do this directly with Putty command line:

putty.exe -L 5006:<remote_host>:5006 -P 22 -l <user> -pw <pwd>

where

• <remote_host> is your remote host (running the server listening on port 5006)
• <user>/<pwd> are the credentials to access via SSH to <remote_host>

assuming SSH port is 22

Answer 2

PuTTY comes with console client Plink.

Plink has the same command-line syntax as OpenSSH ssh except:

• for the -f switch, which does not have an equivalent in Windows.
• and you cannot combine multiple switches after one dash - so instead of -NL ..., you have to use -N -L ....

So, you can use:

plink.exe -N -L localhost:5006:localhost:5006 [e-mail]

Reference: Using the command-line connection tool Plink

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Alternatively you can setup the tunnel in PuTTY GUI.

See How to create SSH tunnel using PuTTY in Windows?