Cannot for the life of me get Crashplan SSH tunnel working! please help!

[windyboi]

I have read numerous guides combined, but I cannot get my Mac to connect to the Crashplan plugin on FreeNAS!

I have a script on my Mac: (servicePort in ui.properties = 4200)
FYI: 192.168.1.100 is the Ip of my Macbook, and 192.168.1.3 is the IP of my Crashplan jail.

#!/bin/bash
# Port forward to FreeNAS for Crashplan plugin
SERVICE_PORT=`cat /Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Resources/Java/conf/ui.properties | grep servicePort | egrep -v '#' | awk -F "=" '{print $2}'`
CRASHPLAN_USER="crashplan"
CRASHPLAN_JAIL=192.168.1.3
echo "Connecting on Service Port: $SERVICE_PORT"
echo "Expecting Crashplan FreeNAS Jail at: $CRASHPLAN_USER@$CRASHPLAN_JAIL"
# Connect to crashplan
ssh -L $SERVICE_PORT:127.0.0.1:4243 $CRASHPLAN_USER@$CRASHPLAN_JAIL -N


I can verify that when I run this script, the result of
lsof -i tcp | grep ^ssh
is:

ssh 11688 Jamie 3u IPv4 0xb6edbbe79e08473 0t0 TCP jamies-mbp:61437->192.168.1.3:ssh (ESTABLISHED)
ssh 11688 Jamie 6u IPv6 0xb6edbbe8bb21f03 0t0 TCP localhost:4200 (LISTEN)
ssh 11688 Jamie 7u IPv4 0xb6edbbe8bf20d7b 0t0 TCP localhost:4200 (LISTEN)


On the server, in the Crashplan jail I see this:

root@crashplan_1:/ # sockstat -4
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
crashplan sshd 72514 5 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.100:61437
root sshd 72512 5 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.100:61437
root java 8386 59 tcp4 127.0.0.1:4243 *:*
root java 8386 60 tcp4 *:4242 *:*
root java 5740 59 tcp4 127.0.0.1:4243 *:*
root java 5740 60 tcp4 *:4242 *:*
root java 5739 59 tcp4 127.0.0.1:4243 *:*
root java 5739 60 tcp4 *:4242 *:*
etc..


But when I start the Crashplan Desktop App on my Mac, it looks no different to when I started it on my Mac without being tunneled to the FreeNAS. Also, I can confirm in the Crashplan logs that it is still stuck on 3.6.3.

I'm aware of the fix listed here:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/crashplan-3-6-3.18416/#post-101205

But im not even at that stage yet (and I verified that my run.conf looks as it should)

Any help much appreciated, I've been pulling my hair out for weeks over this!

Thank you

 

[Rocketman]

same with me. The problem seems to be that the plugin uses crashplan 3.6 and that is not compatible with crashplan 4.x and up.

I have a service request into code42 to see if I can get a version 3.6. I'll let you know what they say...

 

[windyboi]

same with me. The problem seems to be that the plugin uses crashplan 3.6 and that is not compatible with crashplan 4.x and up.

I have a service request into code42 to see if I can get a version 3.6. I'll let you know what they say...

Ah ok, so I've got my tunnel set up correctly similar to yours then?

Great, thanks! :)

 

[windyboi]

Don't suppose you've heard back yet have you?

 

[windyboi]

Anyone else here able to help?

I'm wondering why the crash plan plugin which is built into freeNAS is so outdated. It is one of the main reasons I chose freeNAS, but it seems to be such a ball ache.

 

[smalahove]

Anyone else here able to help?

I'm wondering why the crash plan plugin which is built into freeNAS is so outdated. It is one of the main reasons I chose freeNAS, but it seems to be such a ball ache.

Although the plugin itself has version 3.6.3, crashplan autoupdates. You can check this in the logs on your server:

Code:

% cat /usr/pbi/crashplan-amd64/share/crashplan/log/history.log.0 | grep version
<snip>
I 08/05/16 10:06AM CrashPlan started, version 4.3.3, GUID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
</snip>

I've not had any success currently with connecting the client to my server, although the ssh tunnel is working. A version mismatch between server and client is likely, I fear.