Use NAS4free as proxy

[ku-gew]

Hello,
I have an embedded NAS4free.
Since I live in a country different from the one of my server and since my bank accepts only logins from within the same country, can I use my NAS4free as proxy?

I can easily make a tunnel from my Windows 10 to my NAS4free using Putty, I do it already to access the NAS4free GUI (tunnel from localhost:8090 to IP_NAS4free:80).

What would be the next step for using it as proxy?

[tony1]

I think you would use "ssh -D" and then configure your browser to use socks5.
give that a try.

[b0ssman]

do not expose a proxy server directly to the internet. that will go wrong. badly.

if you have a ssh server running tony1's idea would start a socks proxy and that would work.

i would suggest setting up a decent router using pfsense, openwert or ipfire and creating a vpn that you can connect to.
see for example https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.ipsec.basics

[tony1]

an open proxy would definitely be a bad idea and would be abused in a few minutes.
look in the ssh man page, what I am describing would be secure.
openvpn is nice and if you use that option you need to forward all packets across the tunnel.

I have added an image for a browser configuration that should work.

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make sure your ssh is secure, use keys and disable passwords etc.

it might work? if they do deep packet inspection and see it coming from ssh or a vpn it could possibly be rejected. worth a try though.

[ku-gew]

Yes, the SOCKS solution worked, thanks. My NAS is still using password as alternative to keys, it's more practical and the pass is random and long.

[leejamescn]

I use a virtual machine to do this, freegate in windows server 2003 as http proxyserver.