Linux on our LAN is not allowed hence this excercise....

Had a flick around with a bit of demo software but its beyond me so im gonna give up on this.... Dontr even know where to start....

Thanks for your help anyway....

You can speed it up even more if you don't forward your X. Install a proxy server on your Linux box at home. At work forward a local port (let's say 8080) over SSH to the proxy server port (also 8080 for example). Then set the proxyserver for your browser, mail client or whatever to localhost:8080. Obviously the proxy has to support the client apps.

oh, and better double check your firewall at home to only allow your SSH port (443) as inbound. An open proxy would not be a very good idea...

Downloaded a demo x server jobby and managed to redirect kmail, konqueror and the like....

Things are still very slow though.... Its a shame coz if I use terminal server over the same link on the same computer, things fly....

I have redirected port 3128 down my putty tunnel, installed firefox on my Windows pc at work and now I can browse the net without my office knowing whats going on....

i like this linux lark....

I have somewhat of a similar problem: I used to ssh to my linux box over port 80 and life was great… A couple of days ago corporate HQ updated their firewall and since then I can not connect anymore. I tried ports 80, 443, 21 (these are the only ones open to my firewall ID), but none of them work. Weird thing is that sometimes I can connect, for a couple of seconds, 1 minute max, then I get disconnected…
Some examples from the log on the linux box:
-the case when I get connected and then disconnected :
sshd[1599]: fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer
- the case when I can not connect at all:
sshd[1826]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for x.x.x.x



I am not sure whan firewall corporate HQ has set up, all I know is that I use Firewall-1 Authentication Agent 4.1 (by Checkpoint Software) to log in and get access to the internet.

Any ideas?

Thanks
N.