Remote Access

[Andy]

Say I have a Linux box running in the UK and I want to surf the web via this box from a computer in another country and display the web browser screen on my local computer. How do I do it?

I would want to do this over a secure connection too.

I normally use Windows XP so please don't get too technical here 

The reason I want to do this is to surf the web as if I was in the UK even though I am not, for geo-targeting of Ads reasons. I want to view the Ads that show up for the UK even if I am not actually there.

[SensoVision]

Andy I think the easier would be to find a proxy in UK and use it anyway there are several solutions which are moderately complicate to hard.
1. using remote desktop administration application which is compatible with Windows http://www.nongnu.org/grdesktop/ (there is KDE flavor of GUI for rdesktop too) this way you'll have to use Linux GUI and perform all actions on it.
2. There is way to run GUI application from other machine on your local machine which run Linux with X.org it's called Linux forwarding: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_X-forwarding
3. And probably the best and wise way(in term of resources, speed and reliability) is to setup your own secure proxy server which would have IP in UK and have protection so only you can use it.

I would want to do this over a secure connection too.

of course you can setup encrypted VPN connection for it but it will complicate things a bit.

I normally use Windows XP so please don't get too technical here  Grin

I tried to

[Andy]

Thanks for the help Denis.

I think proxies can be identified so I really wanted to surf from a single-user IP in the host country.

[SensoVision]

Thanks for the help Denis.

I think proxies can be identified so I really wanted to surf from a single-user IP in the host country.

not at all, Andy. As for proxies it depend from setup I guess.
You may also consider creating VPN to server in UK and create setup which will place your home computer behind the NAT, this way it should be invisible to other computers but this is most complicated solution...

[Andy]

When I worked in the corporate world I used VPN and we had dongles that changed the password or whatever. Like you say, complicated.

[SensoVision]

actually setting up VPN is easier part VPN could be setup in many different ways, without dongles and using static password as well...