On Aug 4, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
Hi all,
As the techie in my extended family I end up fielding a lot of
support calls
from different family members. I was thinking it'd be nice to be
able to
remotely access their machines from home if the need arises and in
general
VNC would be perfect for this. My only concern is poking holes
necessary to
enable this since it would involve dealing with different routers &
firewalls, DHCP, etc. I was thinking that a service similar to
gotomypc.comwould make more sense. Both they and I would connect to a
proxy server of
some sort that would establish the vnc connection from my machine
to their
machine. I have a linux box with a static IP that I can set up as
a proxy
but I'm not familiar with any tools to do what I envision. Are
there any
tools available like this? Some sort of app that I can install on
a linux
server that one person could log in as a "server" and one as a
"client" to
establish a vnc connection between the two?
I know how to set up NAT routes, dynamic hostnames, etc. but I
really don't
want to go that way. I'm specifically interested in whether or not
such an
application as I described exists.
Open a port on *your* router, then forward that port to your machine
you use VNC to control their machines. Have them start vnc and
connect to a "listening client" and point to your machine (if
necessary, a dyndns hostname).
Then you never need to configure their routers/nat/firewall, and it
always "just works".
For a while, I dropped shortcuts or whatever they're called on PCs
(pifs?), that did winvnc4.exe -connect "my ipaddr", labeled them "get
help" and would tell my mother "click on get help". :-)
Sean
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