{"id":5401,"date":"2026-07-21T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:08:06","slug":"using-putty-to-port-forward-to-remote-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Using PuTTY to Port Forward to Remote Host"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s say you have your workstation with PuTTY installed, and you have accessed a remote machine via SSH. If you wanted to get to a service running on that remote machine you&#8217;d either need direct port access from your workstation to the remote machine on that port, or you can tunnel a port (or ports) via the SSH connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example I have a remote machine on 192.168.101.151. I want to make port 8000 on my local machine map (and tunnel) to port 8000 on the remote machine&#8217;s localhost IP address, for this I&#8217;d use the following configuration within PuTTY:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-18.png 452w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-18-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you have your workstation with PuTTY installed, and you have accessed a remote machine via SSH. If you wanted to get to a service running on that remote machine you&#8217;d either need direct port access from your workstation to the remote machine on that port, or you can tunnel a port (or ports) &#8230; <a title=\"Using PuTTY to Port Forward to Remote Host\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5401\" aria-label=\"Read more about Using PuTTY to Port Forward to Remote Host\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}