It will work behind NAT routers, but probably not behind strong corporate firewalls that only allow web proxy traffic out (something like corkscrew could help with this if you need it).Ī lot of other people have written guides about how to do this and have done it wrong. This phone home technique will work as long as the laptop can create an outgoing ssh connection.
The following guide will enable me to connect to the laptop if I leave it at home, leave it at work, or in the unfortunate event that someone steals it and the thief defeats File Vault full disk encryption.
I want to always be able to securely connect to my Mac Book Pro anywhere in the world.
