Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.

If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

Hey everyone. I have a samba server running at home on a FreeBSD box (samba-3.0.23c,1). Since I don't want to open the filesharing ports in my firewall, I would like ...

I have a cable modem connection to the net, run through a Dlink DI-604, latest firmware. My Mac is on 10.2.4, and has a static IP number on the local LAN. I have Remote Login enabled. Port 21, and 22 ...

SSH is what is referred to as the Secure SHell protocol. SSH allows you to do a plethora of great things over a network, all while being heavily encrypted. You can make a remote accessible shell on ...