Re: initiating connection from the remote host

One way is to use a SSH tunnel and the Tunnelier SSH client. Tunnelier
allows you to do reverse port forwarding meaning that you establish a SSH
tunnel from your work PC using Tunnelier. Then you can run something like XP
Pro Remote Desktop or UltraVNC through the tunnel from a home PC or the
work laptop, whichever one is running the SSH server software. You would be
working on your desktop just like you were sitting in front of it. It would
require you to install SSH server software on your laptop or home machine
and the Tunnelier client on your work desktop.

If you do this, after getting permission of course, I recommend the copSSH
server software. That is what I use...

http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=12&MMN_position=22:22
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=62

http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier.html

An example of reverse tunneling XP Pro Remote Desktop...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15271094?hilite=tunnelier+sooneral

It would be similar for UltraVNC if the work desktop PC is running XP Home
or some other flavor of Windows...

The tough part is the laptop being the server. With the above scenario you
must establish the tunnel before you leave the office and I am not at all
sure how to do that if your carrying your laptop and the SSH server out the
door on the way home...:-)

With a fixed home PC its easy...

Hopefully you can get your work admins to come up with a VPN solution that
does not require a static IP. I guess a dial in RAS connection would work
with call back to the laptop before you authenticate...

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<aboleth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1141762359.664502.229920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sooner Al [MVP] wrote:
You really really really need to heed Peter's advice and talk to the
office/work network administrators and your supervisors about this. If
this
is a legitimate work requirement you should be able to get them to set
you
up with a VPN client on your home desktop/laptop and authorized access to
the office/work LAN.


Yes, our IT people are really tightening up on this kind of thing at
last. Whatever I do will be after discussion with them, I'm not sure
why you're focusing on this issue as my question was a technical one.
Currently there is no problem with me initiating a remote connection
from work to home, which includes the facility for disk sharing. The
home computer will actually be a laptop which belongs to work anyway
and runs their security protocols. I'm just trying to figure out the
best way for me to suggest a secure way of getting round the static IP
restriction; I'm probably not going to be able to initiate the
connection from home, but I may be able to trigger the work computer to
initiate, perhaps using some kind of polling.



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