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10.5: How to use ssh using 'Back to My Mac'
Authored by: aradke on Tue, Apr 29 2008 at 5:40PM PDT

Use the following format for connecting as a differnent username:

ssh user.name@hostname.username.members.mac.com.

If you do this regularly and wish to save having to use the username all the time for ssh and scp then create a file called ~/.ssh/config with contents like the following:

Host hostname.username.members.mac.com.
User user.name

Host host2.some.domain.com.
User username2
Port 2222
LocalForward 3389 internal-pc:3389

The second host in this file also includes using a port other than 22 and allowing access to a Windows computer called internal-pc with Remote Desktop by connecting to localhost with the Remote Desktop Client.