Are you the firewall administrator of the network at work? If not, I'd recommend talking to him first. Finding ways around firewalls is typically the type of thing that ticks guys like that off, and makes their job a lot harder. He may have some suggestions for you, or be able to open a port on the firewall for you to connect. An option may be a VPN client from home, if that is available.
There are also some commercial options that may help, such as GoToMyPC, that will initate a connection to a 3rd party that you can relay through. Again, I'd ask for permission first. -Tim Joe Fruchey 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 >
