[CentOS] Re: SSH, SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using OpenOffice Possible?

[Therese Trudeau]

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> To: centos at centos.org
> From: ssilva at sgvwater.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:43:00 -0700
> Subject: [CentOS] Re: SSH, SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using OpenOffice Possible?
> 
> on 3-10-2008 1:33 PM Therese Trudeau spake the following:
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>>> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:12:31 -0400
>>> From: hyclak at math.ohiou.edu
>>> To: centos at centos.org
>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH,	SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using OpenOffice Possible?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us:
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>>>>> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:27:28 -0400
>>>>> From: hyclak at math.ohiou.edu
>>>>> To: centos at centos.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH,	SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using OpenOffice Possible?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:38:34PM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us:
>>>>>>>>>>  I can connect to the remote database via Linux desktop, it's just via an un encrypted connection through port 3306. For obvious reasons I don't want to do it that way.
>>>>>>>>>>  My question is, is OpenOffice Calc able to connect to remote databases via SSH and or SCP? If so, do I need a plug in for that, or need to configure calc to do that in some way? How would I do this, or which plug in(s) do I need?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, but what you could do is use an ssh tunnel to accomplish this.
>>>>>>>>> Something along the lines of "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306
>>>>>>>>> database.example.net"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This will tell your system to tunnel the local port 3307 through the
>>>>>>>>> database box, TO the database box on port 3306. From this point, after
>>>>>>>>> you connect via ssh with the above command, you can simply point your
>>>>>>>>> database software to the local 3307 port in plain text, and it'll
>>>>>>>>> travel over ssh to the remote box.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've probably done a bad job explaining this, so I'll go get some more coffee.
>>>>>>>> Hehe THANKS Jim I need some too!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So when I "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306", am I doing this via terminal prior to connecting with Calc (or base),
>>>>>>>> then start up base and enter in just the regular database.example.net into the "Server URL" field in Clac or base?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or do I need to enter "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306" just once in to the "Server URL" FIeld from within OpenOffice Calc or VBase? 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You should enter localhost:3307. That connects to the local end of your SSH
>>>>>>> tunnel. 
>>>>>> OK this is what I tried - I opened up terminal on my local desktop machine, and I issued the command:  ssh -L 3307:domain.name.of.DesktopLocalMySQLserver:3306 username-d7gQ9grfmP7uf9qcbqpnZGC4GVmHw8X4ZSToKVHwfNc at public.gmane.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then I started up OpenOffice Calc, clicked on File>New>Database, and in the area where it asks for the "ServerURL", I entered in:  localhost:3307 and just below it where it asks for the port number I also entered in 3307 (the default is 3306).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  The error I got was "Illegal Connection Port Value 3307:3307: and I could not connect. 
>>>>> I think what you really want is 
>>>>>
>>>>> ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 remote.db.server
>>>>>
>>>>> The host in the middle is relative to the end machine. You could also
>>>>> probably do 
>>>>>
>>>>> ssh -L 3307:remote.db.server:3306 remote.db.server
>>>>>
>>>>> (for that matter, I don't see why you couldn't do ssh -L 3306:... as long as
>>>>> you don't have mysql running on your desktop)
>>>> OK so you are saying to enter into Terminal, either: ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 remote.db.server , OR enter into Terminal:  
>>>> ssh -L 3307:remote.db.server:3306 remote.db.server and substitute in my remote server address for "remote.db.server" 
>>>>
>>>> Once I do that, what should I enter into the OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet Application Dialog box, in order to get the OpenOffice Calc local applicationwhich resides on my desktop
>>>> machine to read the remote database?
>>>>
>>> Correct, that *should* work.
>> 
>> Sadly I can't get OpenOffice Calc to connect that way, I keep getting those �Illegal Connection Port Value 3307:3307� 
>> errors from Calc when I enter in �localhost:3307� into Calc open new database box.
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> If there is a separate port dialog box, don't put the port in twice. IE... In 
> serverurl put localhost and in port put 3307.

OK Some progress anyway, by not putting in the port twice I got a connecrtion.  But as before, 
when I connected un securely, OpenOffice freezes up and crashes after about one minute,
whether or not it's through port 3306, or through 3307 & SSH.
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