encrypted web access to home network [Archive]

skryking

10 Jul 2006, 4:02pm

If any of y'all are like my you have network tools at your home that aren't accessible from the outside. such as router configurations and music servers and such. The way I get to them is using a socks connection inside of firefox. to do this run this command:

ssh -D 9999 yourhost.org

then setup the connection in firefox to look like this (http://www.skryking.net/images/sockv4.jpg)

this will tunnel your web access through the encrypted ssh tunnel to the back end network. This is also useful if you don't like your office snooping what you are browsing as well...but you didn't hear that from me.

Skryking

QCH

10 Jul 2006, 4:06pm

Cool tip, Skryking... But what would you be browsing at work that would be so unsavory? ;D

airbornflght

11 Jul 2006, 2:32am

If any of y'all are like my you have network tools at your home that aren't accessible from the outside. such as router configurations and music servers and such. The way I get to them is using a socks connection inside of firefox. to do this run this command:

ssh -D 9999 yourhost.org

then setup the connection in firefox to look like this (http://www.skryking.net/images/sockv4.jpg)

this will tunnel your web access through the encrypted ssh tunnel to the back end network. This is also useful if you don't like your office snooping what you are browsing as well...but you didn't hear that from me.

Skryking

So what did you use for an ssh server? That above is just to connect to a ssh server is it not?

GrayFox

11 Jul 2006, 5:44am

So what did you use for an ssh server? That above is just to connect to a ssh server is it not?
You need to be on linux to do that.

airbornflght

11 Jul 2006, 12:44pm

no ssh or equivlents for windows? or is that just the command in linux to open an ssh connections?

skryking

11 Jul 2006, 3:36pm

I happen to have a linux gateway setup at my house that accepts ssh connections with rsa authentication...its running fedora core 5. I believe this can be done with putty for windows as well on the client side, but as I don't have a windows box handy I haven't tested it. as far as an ssh server on windows I have had some success tinkering with cygwin.

Skryking