


Technology, SSH is primarily intended to allow shell login and command-lineĪccess to remote Unix or Linux computers (though SSH clients exist for WindowsĪs well). As you might suspect from shell being in the name of the SSH (secure shell) is a technology for securely connecting to a remoteĬomputer. In this final piece, we look at how to use SSH’s port forwardingįeature (also called port tunnelling) to achieve some of the benefits of VPNĪccess without the need for a VPN server.

In part 2, we talked about how to configure the VPN service in Mac OS X Part 1 talkedĪbout how to configure Mac OS X computers to connect to remote networks using (VPN) technologies are available for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. The first two articles in this series looked at what Virtual Private Networks
