cvs/ssh tunnel

[gbsa]

I am having problems connecting to cvs on a nat’d host behind a firewall. The host is running OS X Server 10.4.9. If I am on a computer that is behind the firewall, I am able to connect to cvs. However, when I try to set up a ssh tunnel from my home computer, I run into problems.

To create the tunnel, this is what I am running
/usr/bin/ssh -v -N -p 22 -c 3des [email protected] -L 2401:internalipaddress:2401

My .tchsrc file has
setenv CVS_RSH “ssh”
setenv CVSROOT “:ext:user@localhost:/usr/local/cvs”

The result is:
Cannot access /usr/local/cvs/CVSROOT
No such file or directory

My home computer does not have a cvs repository

In looking at the debugging output, there is no information about the local host trying to connect to the remote one.

I am able to ssh to the nat’d host via a ssh tunnel
for the tunnel
/usr/bin/ssh -v -N -p 22 -c 3des [email protected] -L10022internalipaddress:22

to ssh
ssh -p 10022 localhost

If anyone has any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong? All of the information I have seen about using cvs with an ssh tunnel seems to be in the cvs repository is on the gateway server which has ssh access.

Thanks

[gbsa]

I found a solution from the following site:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/cvs-remote.php

Created a script called ssh10022
#!/bin/sh
ssh -p 10022 “$@”

modifed ~/.tcshrc
setenv CVS_RSH “/Users/user/Documents/scripts/ssh10022”

created a tunnel:
/usr/bin/ssh -v -N -p 22 -c 3des [email protected] -L10022internalipaddress:22

Then was able to checkout a project.

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