<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>After all that explanation I didn't get if the client "C" is running an SSH server.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>For you to SSH to the client it must be running an SSH server.</span></div><div> </div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br></div><div>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>Twitter: rarsamx<br>http://rarsa.blogspot.com/ <br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts<br><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:37:43 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kwlug-disc] Initiating connections to OpenVPN clients<br></font><br><br>Let's say I have the following: <br><br>- a network named "A", which is an OpenVPN server (running on pfSense,<br> as usual)<br>- a server named "B" on that network. It is running Windows. <br>- a client named "C", which has a connection to network A. It is<br> running Ubuntu, and has SSHD running on it. <br><br>Client C can see network A. It can make arbitrary connections to<br>machines in that network, including server B.<br><br>However, server B cannot initiate an SSH session on C (or ping it, or<br>anything else). It can *respond* to requests for client C, but cannot<br>*initiate* anything. <br><br>My inclination is to say that the firewall in front of client C is<br>blocking incoming connections
from network A. But I don't know whether<br>OpenVPN can do magic to get around that. Can it?<br><br>My eventual goal is to initiate an SSH session from server B to client<br>C. (Yes, I know this is weird.) Can I do this without installing<br>Cygwin and SSHD on server B?<br><br>- Paul<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>