[TriLUG] When away from home

[James Jones]

Thanks Brian,

He has a rackspace instance. I don't know how it is setup, but with
your links, he should be able to get something working.

Alan,

I will forward both brian's and your suggestions to him.

And John, You are correct -- He would have to establish his vpn or
alan's suggestion from inside the hotel and leave it up and running.

I welcome anymore suggestions.

jcj

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Brian Cottingham <spiffytech at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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