Opening Port 8080 on MacBook Pro Tahoe26.4

Etresoft, I was not here to insult anyone. Simply asking for help. I understand there was probably a fair amount of info I may have left out that would be useful. Your reply came across as very condescending to me. I feel that you should never assume a questions is from someone who is an internet nuwbie with no idea of what they are doing. Simple questions from you would have been greatly appreciated and honestly answered with me fully admitting I don't know some of what you may need for an answer but willing to bend over backwards to get you what information I could share to help me. I am effective enough to be able to do some work in terminal and will gladly accept guidance from someone who is more knowledgable than me. If it makes you feel better, SSI is a global software company in a niche market (office supplies and equipment). I am not surprised you and others would never have heard of them. I have tended to work more with Windows and Linux and would like to have cordial back and forth to learn from others with more knowledge than I. There is a big difference in these OSs and I enjoy learning how they work (even at my age). Remember you get more with sugar than vinager (I do like salt and vinegar chips though)...

BobHarris and Camelot, THANK YOU for asking that question! I am sorry about leaving out the tunneling part. I knew I would leave something out important and that was it. I will give it a try and get back with you tomorrow on how it goes. I don't know it if this will make any difference in this discussion but when we log into the remote server, it is a DOS (or similar looking) system. The tunnels or port forwarding allows us to access a web based graphical mode that for lack of a better term that I know of runs on the "DOS" based system we have to operate through to use. Thanks for the directions to look at and I will report back asap. If it would help you see what I am working with I am also willing to upload screen shots of the settings from a working connection. Hope you have a wonderful evening.

Goo afternoon. Thanks for the needed help. I am not getting any error messages on the basic connection. I used the netstat command you suggested and it does not show the Mac to be listening to port 80 or 8080. I tried the commands Bob Harris suggested but it only timed out on 80 and 8080. Here is what comes up:

What have I missed?

Thanks Barney-15E. Forgive my ignorance with this reply. The port I am using for the first connection is 1156 and it allows the connection to work. This allows the remote connection to complete and is the first step needed to allow a more robust graphical connection which happens in a browser enviroment. Allowing port 80 or 8080 to be open or listened for is how the web based or "graphical" is used. Let me know what other info or screen shots I can post that may help

I follow that, thanks. One thing I realize that I didn't see before is that it is trying to hunt on port 22, which I understand is the default SSH port. The basic starting point for my connection is ***port ***. In the SSH app, that is all that is needed for the basic connection and this works fine. There is port forwarding for print and admin functions. PF to 8080 is there to allow a connection through a browser I believe. I tried the SSH without the -L and got an error could not resolve host name.

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Bob the fisherman, thanks for asking. Yes, the router is set to allow. All the other PCs here are Windows and Linux, both which have no problems.

Thanks for taking the time to work with me on this. I have posted to Camelot with a screenshot of what I am seeing. I am sure I have missed something and your help is greatly appreciated.

If I have port forwarding on ports 80 and 8080, would that have the OS listening? About to head out for the weekend and will pickup Monday. Hope you all have a great weekend.