Can’t resolve aliases to remote shares on remote box

[Anonymous]

At work in one department I have several machines (OS9/OSX/NT/Linux/Unix) networked on a particular workgroup. I can sit at any mac in that department and mount a share from an imac in my office (same workgroup). On that share I have alias to another share that is located on a NT box (same workgroup). From mac I am sitting at I can double click the alias residing on the imac and resolve it to the NT share and it opens up in the finder no probs. If I go home and mount the work imac share, then double click the alias to the NT box it will not resolve. I can however ssh in terminal to the imac, cd to /Volumes and list, copy, etc… whatever I want on that NT volume. I need to be able to do this at home in the finder like I can at work. Your readme showed a similar scenario. When I run SSHPassKey1.1 and hit the Configure Project Builder button it crashes app. If I hit Congigure Login Enviroment button it behaves like a normal button but doesn’t seem to do anything. In Vapor1.1 I can’t get it to connect even to the imac let alone tunnel to the NT box. It tells me SSHPassKey isn’t installed or keys haven’t been setup. Stupid question#1…do I have to install ProjectBuilder first (don’t even know what this is). Stupid question#2…If I get this working will I be able to resolve NT share alias on remote imac? Stupid question#3…is there a simpler solution to resolve that alias that I am missing out on, I don’t even care if it’s encrypted. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Read over your article https://www.afp548.com/Articles/security/ssh-tunnels.html which is awesome!

Utilized your examples. At work I have remote tunnel from NT to iMac, and local tunnel on iMac listening to remote tunnel on iMac. Verified with netstat. Still can’t mount NT volume from home G4 in the Connect To Server window. Receive a can’t connect error -36 in the finder.

Stumped, could it be something to do with “Appletalk” vs. “Appletalk over TCP”? My home connection is adsl using PPoE which disables my Appletalk Services Tab in network control panel. But then how am I doing my normal non-tunneled mounts of the iMac on my G4 at home? I am going crazy here somebody PLEASE advise. Thanks!

NT4 sp6, iMac 10.1.5, G4 10.2.3

P.S. I forgot to mention in earlier post I am head of IT at work and have complete control over every piece of gear in the chain except for 3rd party SDSL router which they configure per my instructions and SW Bell home ADSL modem which I have no control over. So I can configure as needed.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your response! I can and do use option b) but I need to be able to mount the nonpublic ip NT shares at work in the finder of my G4 at home. The iMac at work has a public ip but alas it is only 10.1.5. Since last post I discovered Apple doc which showed me how to run my Appletalk alongside PPPoE by creating a second network port configuration that uses Appletalk and shares the en0 with PPPoE, it seems to work and does not disconnect home G4 from isp. Having done this…could I route AppleShare over Appletalk from work NT thru work iMac to home G4?

I may be asking the impossible here, but in a nutshell I would like to create a “mini” VPN of Appletalk from work to home using just ssh and port forwarding so that I can mount remote nonpublic NT shares at home in the FINDER.

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