SSH Port Forwarding

Every now and then I want to access my home computer, so I happily use SSH port forwarding.


There are tons of resources out there, but here's my simple guide.

1. set up ssh tunnel (this one does both a socks proxy on 8088 and tunnels localhost VNC)
1. ssh -D 8088 -L 5900:localhost:5900 username@machinename.com
2. if you don't want a shell throw -N in there, although I don't really get the point for the most part.
2. set up foxy proxy for firefox
1. make a new proxy localhost:8088
2. make sure it's set to "SOCKS" which is a bizarrely unchecked check box even when you nominate socks5
3. use proxy for all traffic (obviously you can be a lot more sophisticated than this)

That's it!