Question:
Is it possible to SSH tunnel through a website/domain?
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2010-09-14 08:14:20 UTC
I know it is possible to SSH through either a computer at home setup to support it or a VPN with SSH enabled; but is it possible to do a similar thing with a web-server?
It isn't ideal to have my own computer on all the time (and i'd rather not open up ports etc on my own pc) and VPN's are fairly costly.
Three answers:
Psyfi
2010-09-14 08:23:01 UTC
its possible on any type of server as long as the server has the sevice ssh enabled and you have an ssh client
BigE
2010-09-14 09:20:20 UTC
I don't get what you want, you want to invoke a browser in your home remotely?

Tell us which direction and what you want to do with what computers running what os?

Update:

First, you need an SSH server on the remote end.



For web, see if the client has the -D option, which is the socks proxy. You pick a port, setup the proxy and reconfigure your browser for the socks proxy.

I use this all the time.



If you don't have a proxy, you can setup simple port 80 tunneling. This tends to not work well because of virtual servers and how to address things.



If on Linux to Linux, you can use X port forwarding. By invoking the browser on the remote end and using the local flag, you can display the brower on your roaming laptop. On firefox, it is --no-remote.

No reconfiguration of the laptop is necessary.



Most companies have some https interface into mail, because in order to get access to your mail via pop or imap requires reconfiguration and you would not want to do it all the time.



Look on the web, various links on how to ssh tunnel imap and pop mail. You just need to setup tunnels for imap/pop and smtp. Painful, there might be a way to setup a profile for this.



Lastly, if you want to get to a PC you should be able to invoke either vnc or rdc and use the desktop for browsing and mail through port forwarding. Rdc is tcp 3389 vnc is 5900 + display.
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2016-12-13 13:47:50 UTC
Shane any P2P have no tunneling protocols. you in simple terms have direct connection to different laptop as customer or server. SSH and tunneling protocols L2TP, P2TP tunnels are in basic terms at company networks.


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