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bomben
Asked: 2020-02-10 08:39:10 +0800 CST

How to connect to localhost of headless server (for Syncthing)

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I was unable to use 

ssh [email protected] -L 8384:raspberrypi.local:8384 -N

to connect to localhost:8384 when installing Syncthing. This was odd because I successfully connected to another service right before with that line (on another port).

networking ssh localhost headless

2 Answers

  1. Well, it is also of course possible to change syncthing's config in ~/.config/syncthing/config.xml to bind the webGUI to some other IP than 120.0.0.1.

    After changing the config use sudo systemctl restart [email protected] with USER beeing the user from the HOME folder to restart the service.

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  2. It worked with ssh [email protected] -L 8384:127.0.0.1:8384 -N.

    Also, what is maybe interesting to know: The process can be put into background with

    syncthing &

    It will still print output to the console but by canceling this output with CTRL-C the background process will not be canceled and is still doing fine.

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