How to create SSH tunnel using PuTTY in Windows?

Question

I need to create SSH tunnel with PuTTY in Windows, that would do the same as this command in Linux:

ssh -fN -L 2000:SomeIp:2000 myusername@myLinuxBox
         


        

Answer 1

The answers above mention two different ways of resolving the problem:

• using plink
• using putty GUI

I don't have plink and I can't download the plink.exe file (it is a closely monitored restricted environment) so used a different way to script the solution with a one-line script:

start putty -ssh myusername@myLinuxBox -pw my_pw -L 2000:localhost:2000

Store this in a batch file (file extension ".bat", e.g. "tunnel.bat"). So every time you double-click on this file the command is run and putty creates the ssh tunnel. If you want more tunnels just repeat this part

-L 2000:localhost:2000

by changing the ports accordingly.