Uh, just as a quick note, if they have those restrictions in place won't you get fired if you try some of this? :)
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Thursday, February 1, 2007, 12:29:40 PM, you wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
