SSH Local Port Forwarding
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There are some services that I don’t want to run all the time which makes me not want to open a port for it. One good example of this is Jupyter Notebooks. Therefore, what I sometimes do is run it locally and forward the port so that another machine can access it.
Example command:
ssh -L 8888:localhost:8888 -N 192.168.0.2
The -L flag allows you to specify the localsocket:host:remotesocket.
-N makes it so that it doesn’t execute any additional commands
Then finally you put the address of the machine you wish to connect to.