remote access

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:10 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I'm trying to use vnc4viewer on an edgy box at work to connect to my 
> electronically comatose dad's home XP box.  I have realvnc setup on the XP 
> box and it works from my home boxes, but the problem is that our corporate 
> network seems to be locked down tight (and I have no admin access nor am I 
> likely to).  I can't ping any IP address that is outside the corporate 
> network, so I assume that the firewall is blocking access.
> 
> How can I get through?  If anyone has any suggestions, could you also point me 
> to some explicit instructions?

If you can run an ssh server on your dad's machine, you could
potentially use ssh and its proxycommand option to connect through your
local firewall (which is probably either SOCKS or HTTP). I haven't tried
to get around firewalls in a while, but you can press:
Alt-F2
type:
man:ssh_config
and look at the ProxyCommand option to get a feel for how it works.

As to running sshd on a windows machine, someone else will have to help
out.

Alternatively, there might be a way to get the vnc viewer to use netcat
to connect through the proxy...


> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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