Connecting to SVN server behind corporate firewall from home

Question

How can I configure TortoiseSVN to connect to a SVN server behind a corporate firewall from home?

This is the question I'm having a hard time finding an answer to. Here's what I DON'T have:

1. Official VPN access to the corporate intranet.
2. Control over the SVN server.
3. Any control over the intranet.
4. Cooperation from the IT department.

Here's what I DO have:

1. Full control over my computer at my desk at the office.
2. Willpower

This is a shot at what I tried, and seem to be unsuccessful at (names of people and places and machines have been changed to protect the innocent):

1. I am using Wippien to set up a zero configuration VPN from my home computer (NG-ATHOME) to my work computer at my desk. This works, I have total network access to and from both machines.
2. I have OpenSSH for Windows running on NG-WORKBOX.
3. I have PuTTY on NG-ATHOME connecting to NG-WORKBOX to tunnel dynamically over port 1080. The SOCKS proxy is working, as I can verify that with any web browser. I can confidently say that this is not the problem in the scenario.
4. I am using TortoiseSVN on NG-ATHOME configured to use a proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080. When I try to hit "svn://NG-SOURCE/PonyRepository", I get error: cannot connect to host. I can ping NG-SOURCE fine.

Why doesn't SVN work?

Hmm, I have a suspicion that SVN does not like SOCKS. Anyone have a suggestion?

Answer 1

What happens if, from home, you do "telnet localhost 1080"? Does it connect?

If you wireshark the traffic on that port, do you see anything interesting?

Answer 2

Have you tried forwarding directly to port 3690 on the target machine instead of using socks?

ssh -L 3690:remote:3690
svn info svn://localhost/blahblahblah