Comments on: Setting up a proxy server at home http://www.applemacgeniusville.com/2008/10/06/setting-up-a-proxy-server-at-home/ …Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jeffbates http://www.applemacgeniusville.com/2008/10/06/setting-up-a-proxy-server-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2 jeffbates Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:19:28 +0000 http://www.applemacgeniusville.com/wordpress/?p=54#comment-2 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. 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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