Topic: can sme server be used as a proxy for firefox

[jodahall]

Hi.

I am going to be out of Canada for a couple months during the NHL playoffs and want to use my SME server as a proxy for firefox so that i can stream NHL games.  cbc only streams to Canadian IP addresses.

I have a SME 7.3 server at home and tried to ssh tunnel into it with putty and then tried to go to a website and it didn't work.  I set up my putty and firefox correctly i believe, but all the websites time out ??

my putty is setup like this
ssh -> tunnels
     L80 <home address>:80
     L443 <home address>:443

and in firefox i set proxy manually and under the socks area i put localhost and 80

I don't know if i will need a different port for the stream or if it will be through 80 since it is coming from a website, but i'm not there yet.  I can't access any site once i start the proxy, well except for my own.

I don't know if the SME configuration allows what i'm trying to do, any help would be appreciated.

thanx

[mmccarn]

You need to use port 3128.

I just tested it using my home SME as follows:

• putty my.home.sme -L 3128:127.0.0.1:3128 -l root
• Configure Internet Explorer to use "localhost" port 3128 as a proxy
• browse, browse, browse!