What is the best way to tunnel out of a corporate Net -> home PC?

[tuprox]

Ok, I'm sure a lot of you work in an office where the corporate IT guy blocks all kinds of stuff like IM'ing, pandora, Skype, ICQ, torrents, etc. When I worked for an IT company we would setup the networks with certain sites/services blocked with either a firewall or a proxy but employees could get around it by tunneling out with a SSH tunnel (or something similar) to their home machine and then running whatever they wanted from their home machine.

I'd like to figure out the different ways this is possible. I guess the following will work, although I'm not sure how to implement them:
-VPN connection having the home computer as the server
-SSH tunnel
-RDP/RDC from work machine to home machine (is something else needed?)
-SSLVPN (how is this different than a normal VPN?)

I'd like to know if it is possible to use a server like a VPS (with root access) to act as the "home" machine instead of the actual home machine. This might be easier to use for some people as they don't have to mess with their home router/firewall.

So what are ways to do thie ans what are the best methods to use with Windows XP->Win7?

 

[TheSlamma]

I'm not going to tell you how to do this stuff cause many IT staff block this stuff for very good reasons. Other people can be the bad guys for that but I'll answer a few of your tech questions.

-RDP/RDC from work machine to home machine (is something else needed?)
You can only RDC into Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise or Ultimate. Home can only issue a remote assistance request or must have something else like VNC installed.

-SSLVPN (how is this different than a normal VPN?)
It's VPN that uses a web browser to connect via port 443, so it doesn't require a client install and ofcourse you will need something on the host end such as Win Server 2008 with SSTP or a Juniper SA series.

VPS is just a virtual machine and bound to the same limitations as any other network host. If you are trying to avoid port forwarding you will have to have a public IP address on that virtual machine too.

 

[her209]

Delete the Windows folder.

 

[tuprox]

I'm not going to tell you how to do this stuff cause many IT staff block this stuff for very good reasons. Other people can be the bad guys for that but I'll answer a few of your tech questions.

-RDP/RDC from work machine to home machine (is something else needed?)
You can only RDC into Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise or Ultimate. Home can only issue a remote assistance request or must have something else like VNC installed.

-SSLVPN (how is this different than a normal VPN?)
It's VPN that uses a web browser to connect via port 443, so it doesn't require a client install and ofcourse you will need something on the host end such as Win Server 2008 with SSTP or a Juniper SA series.

VPS is just a virtual machine and bound to the same limitations as any other network host. If you are trying to avoid port forwarding you will have to have a public IP address on that virtual machine too.

I know how to do it, i'm just trying to find all the different ways possible. I've been doing this since 06 but i'm sure there are many more methods that what I know how to do.