Re: tramp with socksify

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>]

Hi Michael,

Michael Albinus schrieb am 08/02/2007 10:22 PM:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> It sounds that it would be possible ... unfortunately the part about
>> the gateway methods is not
>> as informative as the others, at least I don't get a clue reading it
>> and google does not help with socksify, telnet
>> and tramp!?
> 
> OK let's try it together. Maybe we can find out in parallel how the
> documentation can be approved.

It is probably my fault, I have never heard anything about socksify...

> Assume you will connect to test.socksify.com via telnet. Your socksv5
> server is bypass.socksify.com:1080 (in fact I don't know neither the
> host name nor the port number of their socksv5 server, it is just a
> guess).
> 
> You need to declare the socksv5 server as proxy:
> 
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>              (list "test.socksify.com" nil "/socks:bypass.socksify.com#1080:"))
> 
> Then you can connect to test.socksify.com simply via "telnet:test.socksify.com".

Maybe I forgot to say, that I use:

socksify telnet -l USERNAME IPaddress portnumber

to connect to the other machine on the terminal. I would assume that
the IPaddress is the socksv server...
I am not able to check right now, because I just started my holidays
for the next two weeks ... than I will check out more.

Thanks!
Fabian