Noob: Looking for tutorial on setting up SSH Tunnelling for internet file transfer

[esamett]

MW suggested that I learn how to do this for my file transfer needs.

http://forums.freenas.org/showthrea...are-via-internet-web-browser&highlight=tunnel

http://www.facebook.com/freenascommunity/posts/232302070133517

Thanks in advance

 

[matthewowen01]

the simplest way is to setup a new user, make the primary group sshd, leave it's home as /nonexistent, then set it's shell to scponly. Turn on the ssh service. get a nice SFTP program (filezilla works great) login and start to transfer files. to access your files off-site, you'll need to setup port forwarding for port 22 to your FreeNAS box

let me know if you need more details.

 

[esamett]

Thank you for the reply. I will check out the WIKI on the steps you described. I don't understand what "home" or "shell" is for.

Do I also turn on the FTP service. If so how do I configure it?

I have used plain-ole FTP before, but never with tunneling or ssh. How would I configure and use FileZilla?
As a start I want to set up access to my entire NAS.

Thank you.

 

[ProtoSD]

With SSH you don't need to tunnel FTP, you use the command 'scp' (secure copy). Look at the man page or google 'man scp'. The program @matt suggested is a GUI version which behaves like FTP, but uses ssh/scp to do your transfers.

"home" is the login directory you specify when you create or modify a user account.

"shell" is the type of command line interface, like csh, bash, sh etc., but it can also be a standard command you want executed when you login. Once the command finishes, you'll be logged back out immediately.

You can change these under Account -> Users -> 'name of user to edit' from the Web GUI and a pop-up will let you modify the settings.
What @matt is suggesting is to create a new user, whatever name you want, and then edit those settings.