encrypted web access to home network

skrykingskryking
edited July 2006 in Science & Tech
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

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

Comments

  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Cool tip, Skryking... But what would you be browsing at work that would be so unsavory? ;D
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    skryking wrote:
    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

    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?
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    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.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    no ssh or equivlents for windows? or is that just the command in linux to open an ssh connections?
  • skrykingskryking
    edited July 2006
    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
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