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RobLikesBrunch

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Is there anyway to "SSH" (not sure if this term is appropiate when doing it via cable?) via cable? VLC player just came out for the iPhone...and it's great because I don't have to convert videos anymore...but wirelessly adding them to my iPhone is slower than converting them and then adding them...is there anyway to add files via cable?
 
Since i've been doing some work on my phone at work i have not been able to SSH into it. Wifi is against company policy, so i had to think of something. After some research on the net i came accross a utitliy called iphone_tunnel. This application basically maps over a port to your local pc. So since SSH is running on port 22 it will map it over to your local pc and then you SSH into your local ip 127.0.0.1.

Note your phone needs to be jailbroken and have SSH running otherwise you cant SSH to your phone.

Let me explain a with more detail.



Step 1.

First go and grab the files neccesary here.

tunnel1.JPG


Step 2.

Go ahead and extract the content of the rar file.

tunnel2.JPG


Step 3

Start a dos command window and browse over to the directory where you extracted your rar file. In my case this is at c:\iphone then run this command "iphone_tunnel.exe 22 22" without the quotes. This will start the tunneling service.

tunnel3.JPG


Step 4.

Launch your client, we're usingn WinSCP found in out files section. In the host name enter ip 127.0.0.1 then click login and wait.

tunner4.JPG


Step 5.

When it prompts you for the user name put in "root"

tunnel5.JPG


When it prompts you for password enter "alpine"

tunnel6.JPG


You should now be able to browse your iphone content.

tunnel7.JPG


source article
 
There's an easy way (easier than that, at least) to do this on Mac too... Hm, methinks a how-to thread is in order for this.
 
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