VNC through evil nasty firewall

[David Smith]

>Anyway, if port 22 is open, and if you can install an SSH client on
>your end and an SSH server on the other end, you can "tunnel"
>virtually any connection through the SSH connection.  If the computer
>on the other end is any flavor of Unix (including Linux) it probably
>already has an SSH server on it; clients are widely available for
>Windows.  This will have the added benefit of encrypting the entire
>connection.  SSH also includes compression which may make the
>connection appear faster in a situation where you have fast computers
>and a slow network.

You can use SSH on ports other than 22, if you have access to a 
machine capable of running the SSH deamon (SSHD) outside of the 
firewall (which are any Unix/Linux, Windows NT or 2000 using cygwin, 
www.cygwin.com) you can set it for any port and tunnel anything 
through it.

Sysadmin or Login had an article last year about using ssh as a VPN 
by tunneling PPP though it which would give you full network 
connectivity.
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David A. Smith
<smithd "at" blkbox.com>
The box said: "Needs Windows 98 or better," so I bought a Macintosh.
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