[TriLUG] When away from home

[John Broome]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:09 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:


> The hotel as most hotels do blocks such activity. How can he access
> this server? I am thinking that some sort of vpn setup is needed, but
> I am not knowledgeable on vpn?
>
> Can anyone give me some clues on this.
>

Unless your brother is pulling a public IP address, he's not going to have
any better luck hitting a VPN server inside the hotel  than he would sshd.
 Both would require the hotel to forward ports to the server in his room.
 You need to initiate the connection *from* the hotel out to his workplace.