Accessing a FreeNAS Jail via SSH Tunnel

If you ever need to remotely access an application running inside a FreeNAS jail, you can create an SSH Tunnel to the server and map the local IP Address and port of the jail with

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ssh -L JAIL-PORT:JAIL-IP:LOCAL-PORT user@host

As an example, let’s say you can access your FreeNAS server via ssh with [email protected], the jail IP is 192.168.1.10 and it is running an application on port 8080.

To create the tunnel, you would use

ssh -L 8080:192.168.1.10:8080 [email protected]

Once the tunnel is up and running, you can access the service locally with localhost:8080