How do I connect to a remote svn server?

Question

Heres the current setup.

Home PC ---/ Internet /---> Work Proxy Server --/ LAN /--> SVN server

• Home PC running Windows XP.
• Work Proxy server running fedora-core (to which I can connect through ssh).
• SVN server is inside the Office LAN running Windows XP.

I want to connect to the work svn server commit changes, update and checkout from the home PC.

I can tunnel to my Work SVN PC (not the service) with no problems, which I currently use with VNC (using PuTTY).

Currently using Tortoisesvn for a client.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

You need to configure a tunnel port in PuTTY so that you'll connect to localhost:someport on your home PC, and PuTTY will tunnel all traffic between the two.

Depending on the SVN server setup you'll want to use either port 80 (http:), 443 (https:) or 3690 (svn:).

This tutorial is slightly outdated, but still applies here.

Answer 2

Assuming your work proxy machine has access to the SVN server, you would set up a tunnel like this with regular SSH: ssh -L localport:svnserver:svnport username@proxyserver. You'll need to figure out the equivalent options for PuTTY, perhaps by using that link Ben S provided. Once you've set up the tunnel, all your SVN operations will be going through localport on your local computer, so you'll need to set up Tortoise to treat your local machine on that port as the SVN server (using either a new checkout or an svn switch --relocate on an existing working copy.