Hello Windudes. I have a friend I want to play minecraft with. He said he would host the server. He’s great like that. It’s also good because my machine is pretty old and only has 32 gigs of ram so it’s running really slow now. Anyway he said he didn’t want to get hacked by porting the forwards or something so he said I would need to create a tunnel or sometginh. He said I have to open up “cmd” so I did and this window popped with all this text. This is when I said fuck no. I am not a prpgrammer or something. He was being a real asshat saying I just needed to copy paste in this one line or whatever so I ended the skype call right there. Anyway I went to bing.com and typed in the stuff he said “ssh tunnel” to see if a real program existed that could do it for me (i think he was just trying to flex on me with his computer skills trying to make me do all that shit) so there the microsoft ai told me putty invented that tunnel so I went to the first result putty.org that site looks like ass guys I think it’s scam so I just went to the next one softonic to download it. I got through the wizard and now I have it installed. I think it’s glitchy because now my nvidia card is always really loud but whatevey I just want to play minecraft. can someobe please tell me how to connect to my friends server
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Fascinating.
How well do you know this friend?
If you SSH tunnel into his server that is fine, but if you unknowingly run the command that opens a server up on your end he would get full access to everything on your PC. Not to mention, he doesn’t want to open port 25565 for Minecraft but is willing to open port 22 for SSH? Seems fishy.
He would be better off just using Ngrok to allow tunnelling
Obvious troll is obvious lol.
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Okay. Crowbar of separation here.
Yes Putty is legit. It is used all the time. It does the ssh ftp scp etc stuff that is very native to *nix
Now. Your friend sounds sketchy. And yeah. Don’t go putting in commands that you don’t understand
SSH tunnels are very real. That’s how I get to work from home.
But do be very careful
Something like tailscale might be an easier and more reliable solution than trying to keep a ssh tunnel up all the time.
Also win10/11 has ssh natively so you don’t need a third party ssh solution like putty
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Holy shit that’s based
Windows has ssh built in now so I’m pretty sure you don’t need putty to tunnel anymore.
It’s good that you’re wary of pasting stuff you don’t understand into your command prompt. You can do just about anything from there, so someone could easily take over your computer if they wanted. But if you trust this friend enough and want to verify the command, you could copy-paste it into something like ChatGPT to determine what the command does. An SSH tunnel should be simple enough for it to understand.
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Thank you I will dowbload it
