Oct 06

Setting up a proxy server at home

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Issue:  How do I setup a proxy on my home desktop to use on the road? 

Solution:  Use your home computer to create a proxy.
1. On your home computer go to System Preferences
2. Click on Sharing 
3. check the box Remote Login
4. It would be a good idea to allow access to only you.
     a. click  on “+”
     b. select yourself in the list or create a new user 

** If you have a firewall installed at home you will need to open the SSH port. 

The next step you will need to do on the computer that will be connecting to your home home computer.
1. You will need to down load a ssh program.  You could do all the commands in terminal, if you would like.
     a. SSH Keychain
     b. SSH Tunnel
2. When setting up either of these programs make sure you select a port higher then 2000
** If you have any question about either of these programs please comment and I will try to answer.

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One Response to “Setting up a proxy server at home”

  1. 1. jeffbates Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    You will need to also have port forwarding setup for port 22 on your router so your tunnel will make it to the right machine.

    If you find yourself somewhere and do not have a tunnel manager application installed, you can do all the tunneling right within Terminal. Just run the command below, provide your password, and leave the window open. (Closing it will kill the tunnel.)

    user$ ssh -D 3000 shortname@yourserver.foo.com

    You can take the above hints even further and tunnel specific ports that would otherwise be blocked by any firewalls in between you and your home machine.

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