Connecting to sbwin2 from home

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The following can be used to remotely connect from a students home PC to sbwin2 using the Citrix ICA client software.

• Download the ICA Client for your Operating system from http://www.citrix.com/download/ica_clients.asp
• Install the ICA client software on your system.
• If you don't have an SSH2 client already installed then install one. For windows, the client from ssh.com is recommended.
• In you SSH2 client configuration create an outgoing tunnel with the following parameters:
  Local/Listen Port: 1494
  Allow only local connections: YES
  Remote destination host: sbwin2.cs.sunysb.edu
  Remote destination port: 1494
• Test the tunnel, by doing the following:
  - Connect to comperv1.cs.sunysb.edu using the ssh2 client.
  - Open up a command window.
  - Enter the command: netstat -an
  - If you do not see port 1494 on your machine in a LISTENING state, then there is something wrong. The tunnel has not been setup, and you must resolve this before continuing.
• Once the tunnel has been established you need to startup the ICA client. The hostname of the server you are connecting to is "localhost".