This article explains how to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH to create a secure means to connect back to your home computer from anywhere. I’ve always wanted to do this and have yet to do it. Basically this is just about poking a hole in your home firewall, setting up an SSH server, and doing a port forware on that SSH server to the internal VNC-equipped system. Nothing rocket-science here, and the technique can be used for pretty much anything. We actually used a similar technique in my old job before we moved to a full VPN solution.

Want to run OpenSSH on a Windows box? This fun tutorial goes through this (overly complex) process!