Workgroup Manager - Port Forwarding Problem

Hi,

Within my local network, I can easily connect to my
server using Server Admin, Server Monitor, and
Workgroup Manager. They all work great without SSH.

But when I use SSH to set up port forwarding on my
local network like this:

"sudo ssh MySecretAdminID@192.xxx.x.x -L
311:127.0.0.1:311 -L 625:127.0.0.1:625"

I get this error message: "The login information is
not valid for this server." Then, I switch the
server IP back to its true IP (instead of 127.0.0.1)
and it works great.

Server Admin and Server Monitor work fine under ssh.

Both ports 311 and 625 are open on the server for
TCP.

Is there another port I need to forward?

It's not you. It's Workgroup Manager. It doesn't seem
to be fond of 127.0.0.1. I've had greater success
with pointing Workgroup Manager to the Bonjour name
of my workstation or its network IP (not loopback)
and I remember that working, but not even that has
worked for me recently.

311 and 625 should be all you need.

Just a thought that might lead to a better
understanding.

NetInfo (computername.local and 127.0.0.1) is
reserved for all local computers and as such is not a
private IP address. How can you build ssh tunnels to
127.0.0.1 when that address exists and is reserved
only locally? You are trying to secure connect to
yourself, why use ssh? SSH is used to either connect
to another private IP address or a public IP address
(port 23).

Maybe some of the other guys out there can explain it
better than me, but thats the way I understand it.
HTH?