[TriLUG] When away from home

[Brian Cottingham]

A VPN would do it, if there's a second server that both his client and
hotel server can access. OpenVPN is sort of the flagship open-source VPN,
though it can be a pain to configure. Their
documentation<http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html>will
walk you through getting a client and server set up. Services like
proxpn.com will make that easier on you. There's also PPTP, which is less
secure (for what little that matters if you're only doing SSH) but should
also get the job done.

If he has another server outside the hotel he can access, he could take the
substantially easier route of bouncing through it to the one in the hotel
with ssh reverse tunneling <http://www.howtoforge.com/reverse-ssh-tunneling>
.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:09 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:

> My brother is in a land far away. He staying in a hotel with network
> access. He has a small server ( I believe it is an ssh server ) he
> wants to run from his hotel room. He is working nearby and wants to
> access this server during his work day.
>
> The hotel as most hotels do blocks such activity. How can he access
> this server? I am thinking that some sort of vpn setup is needed, but
> I am not knowledgeable on vpn?
>
> Can anyone give me some clues on this.
>
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