You guys are no fun. =P He's out sick today.
On 2/1/07, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
