Friday, April 21, 2006

Play games through corporate firewall on Windows XP:

If you ever tried to play an online game at work, you have probably already found out that you can't. Luckily, I have spend some time and got it working and here is what I had to do.

1. Set up a Windows server outside of the firewall, ie. your home computer (connected to the internet).
2. Install a SSH server such as OpenSSH, a copy of it can be found here.

  • 2a. take all default settings
  • 2b. follow \OpenSSH\docs\readme.txt directions to set up groups, and passwords
  • 2c. edit the \OpenSSH\etc\sshd_config to change the listening port to 443
3. Install SSH client (I prefer PuTTY because it works well on Windows and it supports proxy)