I'm trying to create an encrypted tunnel from a Windows box to a Linux box using Putty. Actually I have been able to create the tunnel successfully. Putty creates a tunnel from localhost:5500 to ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

Hey everyone. I have a samba server running at home on a FreeBSD box (samba-3.0.23c,1). Since I don't want to open the filesharing ports in my firewall, I would like ...

If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

SSH is an extremely handy OS-independent network protocol that is secured via cryptographic means for operating network services over an unsecured network, and uses a client-server architecture. I ...

If your network doesn't allow connections into the default VNC port 5901, you can tunnel it through SSH. There are times when you need to remote into a Linux desktop. When that need arises, the most ...

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.