“work” access changes due to airports, hotels, coffee shops, etc. that I am at. I want to tunnel to the home pc to keep traffic protected in naturally unprotected environments.

Each of these remote locations have random ports open on my “client” end – and I won’t know what is there until I arrive. One place will have 443, the next 3189, random, random, etc. Other than having all ports at the server router point to the server (to enable any condition I might run into – and which is more risky for the home server, is there a workaround?

I have nmap installed on my “client pc” so I can find all open ports on the “client” access point end without much problem. My whole setup between client and server has been tested and works on both my server network (DSL) and a neighbor’s cable wifi (so I knew it was working across multiple broadband providers and different LANs.

I don’t use putty or windows, both client and server are running Xubuntu 8.04, openssh, and Remote Desktop Viewer with Vino VNC, but the problem is the same as those using putty/windows… using “ssh -L 5901:localhost:3986 user@ip.com” returns timeout errors as the server port forwarding is not set up for 3986 (3986 is an open port at an example remote hotel found via nmap; ports I have forwarded at the server are 5900 and 443 right now while testing, 5901 is the port on the client machine that VNC is connected to – thought the ssh tunnel never gets set up to route through.).

Any suggestions other than forwarding “all” ports to the server machine (very risky)?

Im new at this so bare with me ;)
Just a week ago my employer started to use a website filtering system.
Would like to bypass that :) Found this super nice toturial.

I can do everything in this guide but get hold of the proxy settings in step 2.2.
Do you know how you can detect the settings of a proxy server? In my webrowser IE 7 (yes using windows at work) there are no server specified.

Would be nice to get some input on this.
Thanks // Andre

Thanks In advance