Kai Ponte wrote:
James Knott wrote:
AND, it's trivial to ssh into your home box and access an email client there.
Assuming the corporate network & security will permit.
Trivial, no.
However, it is easy.
I seriously doubt your corporate firewall is blocking port 22.
Not that I would *ever* do such a thing, but I imagine that if you had a machine at home running sshd you could write a simple script like I might have that simply goes: ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 my_user@my.home.ip.address and then tunnel into that machine through your corporate firewall.
For a browser, I imagine you could then have a browser - say seamonkey - that you don't normally use (or use foxyproxy) and set it to point to a SOCKS proxy at 127.0.0.1 under port 8080.
I'm sure email clients have similar functionality.
On the home side, you would just need to forward incoming port 22 requests on your internet router to the internal IP of the machine running SSHD. Were I to do this, I'd have my router set to forward port 22 to the openSUSE laptop running ssh at 192.168.0.102.
Check this article out: http://www.linux.com/feature/119744 and this one: http://www.thisblogblo.ws/tunneling-into-your-home-network-via-ssh/
Tell me if it works, I'd love to try it someday, so I could actually get on Facebook and youtube from work. :P
I have already provided one example of how my local library blocks access. Many companies will do the same. Some are easily bypassed, some are not. However, with some employers, attempting such bypasses may be reason for disiplinary action. An I mentioned in another note, I have no problem accessing my home network from work as there have never been any barriers and since I'm the one who controls the firewall, there will not be, unless required by the management. . -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org