On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > ssh -N -n -R 127.0.1.1:139:somelocalhost:139 user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > What happens instead is that, upon ssh connection on the remotehost I > see a listening socket on the interface 127.0.0.1! -R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport ... By default, the listening socket on the server will be bound to the loopback interface only. This may be overridden by specify- ing a bind_address. An empty bind_address, or the address `*', indicates that the remote socket should listen on all interfaces. Specifying a remote bind_address will only succeed if the serv- er's GatewayPorts option is enabled (see sshd_config(5)).