[clue-tech] VPN over Internet

[Red Mop]

On Monday 02 March 2009 07:26:58 pm Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:48 -0600, Jon Buttjer wrote:
> > Dennis,
> > Good morning.  It seems that you wish a combination of things, primarily:
> > 1 - Remote access to that network/pc (a dynamic dns provider to map
> > global ip address to the comcast modem ie.dyndns + port forwarding
> > locally which you can use to get to the desired service on the
> > internal host).  The dyndns would let you use a name
> > (myfavoritesupportcustomer.dyndns.org) instead of the current DHCP
> > address from comcast.
> > 2 - Gui or command access.  Once you have your connection up, you can
> > choose which way to go here. I have used VNC through SSH for linux,
> > and it works.  For Windows, I have used www.logmein.com, remote
> > desktop (RDP), citrix in the past, etc. and they each work.
> >
> > So a next questions might be:
> > * Is your remote host running linux or windows
> > * are you going to need services between the remote host and your
> > local, control host (ie. printing, file sharing, etc.).
> >
> > HTH,
> > jontheisguy
>
> I gave a friend my old laptop with Linux on it.  She doesn't know Linux,
> but is willing to learn.  I want to be able to access her GUI to do some
> support, if necessary, or show her how to do something.
>
> She shares the WAP with a neighbor.  I don't know if the neighbor will
> let me set up NAT.
>

Well, for simplicity, you can use networkmanager to open an OpvnVPN tunnel to 
you, bypassing all the firewall problems.  networkmanager makes it pretty 
user friendly.

Another option would be an ssh tunnel.