How does podman work with tunnels

[shakeabi]

Hey everyone. I'm trying to understand how podman works when accessing through tunnels. (all of the below podman usages are rootless)
Here's what I've setup currently. I've a VS code tunnel running in my home server (say home-server) and connect to it from vscode.dev (using MS dev tunnels).

Now accessing the terminal in vscode shows me this

user@home-server:~$ 

However, doing podman ps here shows nothing although I've about 10 containers running.

user@home-server:~/tmp$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES
user@home-server:~/tmp$ 

Having said that, when I ssh from here to my same account (ssh user@home-server) and then do a podman ps, it lists all the working containers.

user@home-server:~/tmp$ ssh shake@homelab
user@homelab's password: 
user@home-server:~$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                        COMMAND               CREATED       STATUS                 PORTS                     NAMES
539252c44171  docker.io/actualbudget/actual-server:latest  node app.js           10 hours ago  Up 10 hours (healthy)  0.0.0.0:5006->5006/tcp    actual-budget
...

Can someone help me understand the above behavior? Thanks in advance!

[Anachron]

Maybe check if your env is different?

Run env on both connections and compare them.