This is what I want to do and kind of I see it happening:
Browse the internet at work through a sercure ssh tunnel to my home windows 2000 professional box which has an http proxy server running so all my internet browsing can be done from work via the tunnel to the remote proxy server at home.
I think I need an http proxy server at home, and an ssh server at home. And then on my work computer I need an ssh client with the appropriate tunnel configuration.
But I'm not sure how to do it or what apps to use. I have no problems sshing out from work. I don't know about my home dsl connection accepting ssh connections...I know I can adjust my router to allow the ssh port in to the correct machine. The tunnel I have no idea really - but I think the one of the ports on the tunnel setup will be the same port the http proxy runs on at home...
Any suggestions?
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It's even easer than that. SSH has a SOCKS4 proxy built in so all you have to do is:
ssh -D <port> <username>@<server>
where port is the port on your local box to use as proxy then after the connection is established you simply configure your brower to use a socks4 proxy telling it the server is localhost and the port is the port you chose above.
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by: chicagoanPosted on 2004-01-07 at 22:14:31ID: 10068698
sure, you just need to set up port forwarding
ssh -L 80:localhost:<portnumber> <webserver>
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