Your work blocking RDP? here's a quick and easy solution

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No need to configure a vnc client or anything, just teamviewer it :D

I've just been trying it out and it's very neat, the interface is simple to use as a support tool for friends/family but it's also very good if you cannot remote into your home PC from work, just enable a password and your teamviewer ID sticks, just run it in the morning before work and in from work to your id using the installer in standalone mode so admin rights not needed either nor any firewall settings to configure!

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Maybe you don't need it for RDP usage for your own machine but it's a handy tool to use for friends/fam etc!
 
without being a stick in the mud, if your work find you circumventing the computer use and security policies they will likely hang you out to dry.
 
why not just create a ssh tunnel on a port that is allowed out and make the destination port 3389?

im sure putty will allow you to do this, can punch holes through firewalls using this method.
 
mynsa said:
why not just create a ssh tunnel on a port that is allowed out and make the destination port 3389?

im sure putty will allow you to do this, can punch holes through firewalls using this method.
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coz I dont know how lol
 
Is this really any different from LogMeIn? (Which is great also btw)
*edit - just noticed teamviewer does file transfer which the free version of logmein doesn't, well there ye go.
 
If the company in question implemented a proper security policy you wouldn't be able to do that. Tell them to go and put a Cisco ASA in.
 
5tephen said:
Is this really any different from LogMeIn? (Which is great also btw)
*edit - just noticed teamviewer does file transfer which the free version of logmein doesn't, well there ye go.
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plus logmein can be blocked by just adding it to the webfilter.
 
i cant get it working properly, i'm remotely access to a small server box via LAN from my laptop now, i can see the desktop of this server box but i cant double click from my mouse, nor keyboard but i can move the mouse around on the desktop thou :confused:

is it cos i'm using free licence?

cheers
 
wesley said:
i cant get it working properly, i'm remotely access to a small server box via LAN from my laptop now, i can see the desktop of this server box but i cant double click from my mouse, nor keyboard but i can move the mouse around on the desktop thou :confused:

is it cos i'm using free licence?

cheers
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nope, all ok here
 
I don't know if this works for everyone but at work the use MS ISA server, by switching to port 443 (SSL) it worked. Just put :443 at the end of the IP and do some port forwarding on the router that also changes port.

Voila.
 
A[L]C;10992478 said:
plus logmein can be blocked by just adding it to the webfilter.
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I'd be pretty much certain that teamviewer connections all go through some central proxy e.g. *.teamviewer.com that could be blocked easily too. Any program that remotely connects without the need of an IP address has to publish itself to some central server to be able to find hosts at the other end.
Btw I'm not saying Teamviewer is a bad program :o
 
TrX said:
SSH tunnels via port 53 are always my method of choice,

That's not gonna get blocked without some L7 magic ;)
Edit: (or a DNS Proxy... but then there is always a tunnel via DNS TXT records :P http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/browser/README?rev=267)

//TrX
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Or perhaps the network manager may have some sense; and drop large DNS packets without inspection? Either way, as previously mentioned in this thread - trying to bypass corporate security policies is just asking for trouble.
 
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