ssh config file

Make your life easier - reduce typing by putting your ssh options into a configuration file.

Login to to your Linux computer located inside Engineering's network

Create the following file and call it .ssh/config

Host gate
      Hostname gate.eng.cam.ac.uk
      User crsid

Host your_work_computer_name
      User crsid
      ProxyJump gate

For Windows, use ProxyCommand instead of ProxyJump:

ProxyCommand ssh.exe -a -x gate nc %h %p

Once that works, you can copy your public key using ssh-copy-id gate and ssh-copy-id computername.

If you are on Windows 10, you don't have the ssh-copy-id script, so open .ssh/id_rsa.pub in Notepad and copy the contents to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on gate and on computername. Be careful not to split the long line into multiple lines.

Using Microsoft Remote Desktop

Create the following file and call it .ssh/config

Host gate
      Hostname gate.eng.cam.ac.uk
      User crsid
      LocalForward 3391 computername:3389

Then open the Remote desktop on localhost:3391.