It seems I do and it looks fairly simple.

Sorted, I now have remote desktop and ssh.

(cheer)

Remote Desktop on an open port? You're brave.

(Unless you're doing port forwarding over SSH)

I'm not, but it is something I know I should be doing and will look into setting up.

Its really easy, you don't need to configure anything on the server*, its all in the client (PuTTY) configuration.

* If server is Linux, You can make it easier by installing winbind and modifying /etc/resolve.conf so the server can resolve Windows hostnames on your network.

Didn't realise it was so easy. Just done it now.

Last week someone at work mentioned our IT guy checking up on what sites people are accessing over the net, as if it is a regular thing, so the warning was be careful what you browse at work.

This has lead me to add a Socks v5 proxy tunnel to the SSH session I was using to RDP home. Am I right in thinking whatever now goes through the SSH tunnel can't be seen?

It was easy to setup and my IP in Chrome is now showing as my home IP (we use Firefox for work related stuff).

This may be worth a read:

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/945

It was worth a read, thanks.

All quite relevant I guess. I've not asked to open any outbound ports since I found some already open ones. I may change the port since the one I'm using probably usually gets very little traffic.

Hacker! I'm telling!

Shhhh.

The people who need to know already know.  I didn't need to do a thing :)

#NSA