Okay, here's the deal... I want to connect to my Windows machine at work from my Linux box at home. The problems with this are (A) I have a private IP at work with firewall, and (B) Internet access from work is only available through a proxy.
I've seen some solutions: 1. BumpVNC.com will act as a relay server, but you have to use their software, which of course runs only on Windows. Plus, you're connecting through someone else's server. 2. Reverse VNC, but wouldn't that require me to be at work to start the connection? Sure, I could start it before I leave, but if the connection gets lost at all, it's lost until I can restart it, right? No point in that. 3. SSH tunnel to a relay server, but then the SSH tunnel has to stay open all the time, plus my webhost doesn't have SSH port forwarding enabled. So I'd have to find another server. 4. SSH tunnel to my home PC, but what if I need to reset my router, or ever reboot my PC? If I have to use my Windows PC at home to use my work machine via BumpVNC, then so be it, but I'd like to get some feedback. Joe
