PlinkProxy is a small wrapper and INI configuration file around the plink command from the Putty suite of tools. It is meant to dig ssh tunnels and create socks proxies into various networks to cut down on excessive jump host hoping.
It was conceived in a corporate environment with many dispersed environments which were not directly accessible from the desktop. But the resources to be managed be it databases, middleware service and web services to name but a few, required graphical access to these resources.
PlinkProxy has been successfully used with FoxyProxy, DBeaver, WinSCP and FreeRDP over SOCKS5 and LDAP Admin, Apache Directory Studio over local SSH tunnel.
Since this is not an official PortableApp the PortableApps installer must be download first. Navigate to https://github.com/uroesch/PlinkProxyPortable/releases for a selection of releases.
After downloading the .paf.exe
installer navigate to your PortableApps.com
platform Apps
Menu ❶ and select Install a new app (paf.exe)
❷.
From the dialog choose the previously downloaded .paf.exe
file. ❸
After a short while the installation dialog will appear.
The Packages found under the release page are not digitally signed so there the installation is a bit involved.
After downloading the .paf.exe
installer trying to install may result in a
windows defender warning.
To unblock the installer and install the application follow the annotated screenshot below.
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Right click on the executable file.
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Choose
Properties
at the bottom of the menu. -
Check the unblock box.
The only supported build platform for Windows is version 10 other releases have not been tested.
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PlinkProxyPortable.git
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This is currently the preferred way of building the PortableApps installer. |
For a Docker build run the following command.
To build the installer under Ubuntu 20.04 Wine
, PowerShell
, 7-Zip
and
when building headless Xvfb
are required.
sudo snap install powershell --classic
sudo apt --yes install git wine p7zip-full xvfb
When building headless run the below command starts a virtual Xserver required for the build to succeed.
export DISPLAY=:7777
Xvfb ${DISPLAY} -ac &
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PlinkProxyPortable.git
To build the installer under Ubuntu 18.04 Wine
, PowerShell
, 7-Zip
and
when building headless Xvfb
are required.
sudo snap install powershell --classic
sudo apt --yes install git p7zip-full xvfb
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt --yes install wine32
When building headless run the below command starts a virtual Xserver required for the build to succeed.
export DISPLAY=:7777
Xvfb ${DISPLAY} -ac &
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PlinkProxyPortable.git