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A bit of background. I've been using SABnzbD and SABnzbD+ for over a year now with no problems. A colleague of mine was so impressed that she wants to use SABnzbD+ as well. I've set it up for her but she's having problems that are difficult to resolve remotely. We only meet at the office and I don't want to connect to a newsgroup server over a monitored corporate network. 

There are other types of traffic that I don't want to generate while I'm at work. To get around this I use SSH to connect to my Server at home and use port tunneling or a proxy server running on my home server to redirect those other types of traffic thought a secure encrypted connection.

Is it possible to set SABnzbD+ to connect to a newsgroup server using a redirected connection? I only need it for testing purposes so it doesn't need to be robust, just enough to test that nzb files are being processed correctly and files are being downloaded.

Any thoughts?

Regards,
GoodDoc.

SABnzbd can be used through a tunnel.
If you let a program like Putty create a tunnel, you can let SABnzbd connect to it.
As long as the behaviour of the tunnelled connection is the same, it's OK.

The Giganews Accelerator does about the same thing and I have heard from peple that they use it successfully.

Only question I have is, how do you make the connection to the news server at home?

SABnzbd --> Putty-tunnel --> Your-OpenSSH --???--> News-provider

BTW: SABnzbd does not support firewalls (socks etc.)

SABnzbd --> Putty-tunnel --> Your-OpenSSH --???--> News-provider

Those question marks are my problem. The two big things that I don't want monitored are my Slingbox and Web Browsing, and tunneling is a nice solution because I can use tunnels to connect to the Slingbox and Proxy server on my home network.

What I was hoping for was a method of redirecting the "SABnzbD --> News server" connection, but as you have pointed out there's nothing on my  home network to redirect the connection after it has passed through the tunnel. What I want is the ability to configure SABnzbD+ to use a proxy server (or a similar method).

There are no plans for socks and other firewall support. Very few home users have these and also SABnzbd is not exactly targeted to businesses.
Your best bet in this case is to find a way to have a secure remote desktop from home to work.

Using COPssh and Putty is a great combination.
It's very well explained here: http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/S ... opSSH.html

shypike wrote: There are no plans for socks and other firewall support. Very few home users have these and also SABnzbd is not exactly targeted to businesses.
Your best bet in this case is to find a way to have a secure remote desktop from home to work.

Using COPssh and Putty is a great combination.
It's very well explained here: http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/S ... opSSH.html

I've used this method quite a lot from my old work place. Works really good once you set all up.