Automatic tunnel setup in connection profile.

[weaver6244]

I have a new application that doesn't support tty over ssh so I have to first set up a tunnel through to port 23 and then make a second telnet connection to the local ssh tunnel port which passes through the tunnel to telnetd on the remote host.

The ttwin application appears to suport this process in a single step. Is there a way for SecureCRT to set up the tunnel and make the telnet connection all in one step as part of a single connection profile?

[jjh]

Hello weaver6244

I have created an entry for you in our feature request
database for the ability to link a session to a session that
it depends on. Something like that should allow you to
launch a Telnet session that you have saved in your Connect
dialog, which would first connect to a session (if any) that
it depends on - like the port forwarding session you
mentioned. We will post a message here, should a version of
SecureCRT become available with that functionality. If you
would like to be informed via e-mail, please send a message
to support@vandyke.com and reference this forum thread.

Alternatively, if you have SecureCRT 5.2, you can launch
your port forwarding session, which (once connected) could
automatically launch the Telnet session in a tab in the same
window. Here's how it would work:

• Create an SSH session with the port forward for Telnet
  configured
• Within the Application entry box in the Port
  Forwarding Properties dialog, type the path (or browse) to
  SecureCRT.exe
• In the Arguments entry box for the
  Application, type "/t /telnet localhost 23" (without the
  quotes)

The /t tells SecureCRT to launch a new session in a tab

Would something like that work for you?

Thank you

JJH

[weaver6244]

I am going to give it a shot, thanks.

[jjh]

No problem. If you have more questions, feel free to post
here or send a message to support@vandyke.com.

JJH