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Socks SSH Tunnel in Windows
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You may use whatever SSH client you wish, but we only provide instructions and links for putty because it is well known and free. Other SSH clients can be found here, but you are on your own with install and configure issues for anything else.
Install and configure puTTY:
- Download:
- Install
- Start PuTTY
- Where it says Hostname (or IP address) type in the server name you got in your welcome message.
- Where it says Saved Sessions type in Cotse SSH Tunnel
- Click the Save button
- On left click the [+] next to SSH
- Click on Tunnels
- In Source Port type 5000
- In Destination type 127.0.0.1:1080
- Click Add button
- Select Connection -> Data -> Auto-login name and add your cotse username.
- Select Sessions
- Click Save button again.
- PuTTY is configured, now to launch it.
- Double click on Cotse SSH Tunnel and log in with your cotse username (all lower case) and your password (password is case sensitive and will not echo, just type it and hit enter)
- Do not close the window
- PuTTY must always be started first, then launch web browser.
To configure FireFox:
- Run FireFox
- Click Tools - Options
- Click Advanced
- Click Network
- Click Settings
- Click Manual Proxy Configuration
- Enter 127.0.0.1 and port 5000 in the Socks Host line only. ALL OTHER ENTRIES MUST BE BLANK!
- Click OK
- Click OK again
- Surf away.
To configure Internet Exporer:
- Run IE
- Click Tools - Internet Options
- Click Connections
- Click Lan Settings
- Click the checkbox for Use proxy server for your LAN
- Click Advanced
- Enter 127.0.0.1 and port 5000 in the Socks Host line only. ALL OTHER ENTRIES MUST BE BLANK!
- Click OK
- Click OK again
- Click OK again
- Surf away.
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