Hi,
You might remember me - I sent you some email ages ago about getting Almost VPN working through our corporate SOCKS firewall. Well, I have been using AlmostVPN quite successfully until about version 0.9.7 (I can't quite remember which version broke it), but now, whenever I try to connect using Almost VPN, I get a failed connection error.
In my configuration, I have a .ssh/config file which looks like this:
Host www.blazingcactus.com
ProxyCommand /Users/jdale/bin/connect -S sproxy.fnanic.fujitsu.com:1080 %h %p
'connect' is a small program that fudges the communication to the named SOCK server on the specific port.
I can connect to my remote machine correctly from behind our corporate firewall (because it is using .ssh/config which tells it to use the connect program with our SOCKS firewall) when I try the following ssh command from a Terminal:
ssh myusername@www.blazingcactus.com
And, if I use the -L commands, then I can set up the appropriate SSH tunnels (mainly for retieving Yahoo and .mac mail).
However, when I setup a session in AlmostVPN and enter my username, hostname and password, it fails with an immediate 'Connection Refused' error (I'm using the 'Test Account' button) - the log reports:
01/25/06 17:17:30[14194] startSession : jdale@www.blazingcactus.com :
01/25/06 17:17:30[14194] PID ( jdale@www.blazingcactus.com ) is dead
01/25/06 17:17:30[14194] ssh: connect to host 71.132.22.148 port 22: Connection refused
doSSH:2:connection refused
01/25/06 17:17:30[14194] stopSession : jdale@www.blazingcactus.com : kill
This looks like Almost VPN is not using my .ssh/config command when executing the ssh command - why would this be? I remember in a previous email communication, you mentioned something about SSH config files and the root users, but I can't remember.
Thanks for you help and for a great product. Please let me know if you need any more information.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Dale
