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"MySecureShell is an SFTP server that is based on OpenSSH and allows for very flexible configurations, e.g. it has support for chrooting users into their home directories and limiting upload-/download bandwidths. MySecureShell makes maintenance of an SFTP server easy."

I've found many questions on the net regarding the topic so it's time I give you my own answer. In case of SFTP you're lucky: you've at least two methods to do it ...

I just experienced the following error message, when I tried to use dynamic port fowarding with a server that I had used for the same purpose a dozen times before:
The strange thing was that I already used the given server for dynamic port forwarding without any problems. In the server's auth.log I've found this:
The reason for the error message was the SOCKS proxy setup in my browser (FF 3.x): changing the SOCKS version to 5 made the problem disappear. It seems that the daemon in OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9etch2 accepts now only SOCKSv5 connections from clients.