[Paraview] [PV3.1.0] Problems when running client-server

[Clinton Stimpson]

Its also possible to put ssh commands in Paraview as a server startup 
command to make it more automated.

Clint

Berk Geveci wrote:
>> it. By the way, will PV-3 support SSH connections like VisIt do? It seemed
>> to me a very simple way to set up and connect behind firewalls
>> automatically.
>>     
>
> I don't know what VisIt does but I am assuming it uses port
> forwarding. You can always use manual ssh tunneling to get around a
> firewall. I use it to connect to Kitware from home. I do something
> like:
>
> ssh -L 11111:localhost:11111 berk at kitwarefirewall
> then at kitwarefirewall:
> ssh -L 11111:berksmachine:11111 berk at berksmachine
>
> The first one maps all connections to localhost at port 11111 to
> kitwarefirewall, the second one maps all connections to
> kitwarefirewall at port 11111 to my machine. I then connect to
> localhost. So, ssh first tunnels my connection to kitwarefirewall,
> which then is tunneled to berksmachine. This could work with one hop
> if the firewall was not that strict:
>
> ssh -L 11111:berksmachine:11111 berk at kitwarefirewall
>
> would redirect all connections to 11111 on the localhost to
> berksmachine:11111. Our firewall does not allow this.
>
> -berk
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