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Requirements
4. On the router, port forwarding is enabled for SSH service to at least one of
these machines.
Setup
The basic idea to get this working is that we make one initial SSH connection to
our home machine. Then using this connection as a tunnel we can connect to
any machines at home by addressing them with local sub-network address (such
as 192.168.x.x). So the high level steps are:
3. Open another putty session and configure it use the previous putty session
as proxy.
4. SSH connect to any machine at home using the local subnet IP address.
Since we are using a proxy it will resolve the local subnets IP address properly.
5. You can make any number of connections to all your home machines by
just repeating steps (3) and (4).
Note: If on the remote networks subnet is same as your home networks subnet
then you might run into IP conflicts.
Step-by-Step
1) On the remote system, open putty enter the IP address or dynamic DNS
(DDNS) name in the host name field. Select SSH as connection type. Port 22
will be selected which can be left alone unless you run the SSH service on a
different port. Note: Though your putty screen might look a little different than the
one seen here due to version differences, the basic steps would be still the same
In our example,
Host Name = demo123.dyndns.org
Port= 22
2) In putty, on the left-hand navigation panel, open SSH option and select
Tunnels.
4) On left-hand navigation panel, move the scrollbar to the top and click session.
You will be seeing the settings entered in step(1). Now we can save the whole
connection settings. Add a name for this connection in the saved sessions
textbox and click save.
5) Click open, to open connection to home machine, and enter login and
password information for the remote machine. This user need not be root user,
but it needs to be an user with network access on the remote machine. That
brings to the end of putty configuration. Now you have a proxy tunnel connection
from remote machine to one of the home machine. Now we are ready to connect
to any home machine.
6) Open another putty session. Select the options Proxy from the navigation
panel. On the right-side proxy options, enter only the following information. Dont
change any other settings.
Proxy type : select SOCKS 4
Proxy hostname : enter localhost
Port : 3000
7) Click on the Session option from the navigation panel. Enter a name under
Saved Sessions text field. Dont enter any information in the Host Name field.
Now click Save. Now we have a template connection session using our proxy.
8 ) Now enter local subnet IP address of a machine at home and click open. The
connection gets routed through the proxy tunnel and you will be connected to the
home machine directly. Similarly you can connect to another home machine by
opening putty and loading the template we created and just filling in the
machines local subnet IP address.
BTW, if you think just SSH access is not cool enough, you can do more cool stuff
like
To get these functionalities checkout this free utility called Tonido. For more
information on different applications bundled with Tonido you can read more
Tonido related blog posts here.