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Tunnel Tab (Login Dialog)
This article contains description of tunnel configuration. You may want to see simplified guide to the tunneling instead.
Tunnel tab allows you to setup your session to tunnel through SSH connection.
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You need to check Advanced options to reveal the tab. The tab is not available for FTP protocol.
Session Tunneling
To enable tunneling, tick the Connect through SSH tunnel.
In the Host to setup tunnel on box configure basic settings for the SSH tunnel session. The meaning of the boxes is the same as the respective options for the main session on the Session tab.
For more complex tunnels (non-default SSH settings, multiple hops, etc.) you need to setup tunnel using external tool, such as PuTTY SSH client.1
Tunnel Options
Use Local tunnel port if you need to use specific port for the SSH tunnel. This is particularly useful if you want to use the opened tunnel for another applications. When Autoselect is selected, WinSCP will automatically pick a free port from range 50000 through 50099.
Further Reading
Read more about the WinSCP Login dialog box:
- Session (basic session options)
- Sites/Stored sessions (to manage sites/stored sessions)
- Logging (to enable logging)
- Environment (server compatibility options, filename encoding, DST, etc)
- Directories (initial directories, directory cache)
- Recycle Bin
- SFTP (SFTP protocol specific/compatibility options)
- SCP/Shell (shell and SCP protocol specific/compatibility options)
- FTP (FTP protocol specific options)
- Connection (timeouts, keepalives)
- SSH (SSH protocol options and authentication)
- Key exchange (key exchange and reexchange options)
- Authentication (advanced authentication options)
- Bugs (detections of known bugs in SSH servers)
- Preferences (interface/behaviour configuration)
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