On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:08:40PM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Should you want to try the SSH route, this page may help a bit. http://www.vdomck.org/2005/11/reversing-ssh-connection.html
A read through there was useful, his approach to keeping the ssh connection working uses autossh which does almost all I need.
I can just install autossh on the eeePC and it will maintain (or restart as necessary) an ssh connection to my home server machine. I can use that ssh to open up some port or other to allow me to reverse tunnel an ssh connection from the home server to the eeePC - and that's all I need, job done basically.
Autossh does the difficult bit of keeping an ssh connection alive on the unattended eeePC. It's available from the Ubuntu repositories too.