Sean,
What if one of Bruce's family members also has a router?
If they do, then their port forwarding needs to be setup
so that Bruce can connect to whichever machine on their router.
I use a wireless Linksys WRT54GS at home, and I use a wired Linksys BEFSR81 at
work.
I had to configure both routers port-forwarding so that I can communicate
between them,
depending where I am.. in the office or at home. Basically so they can both be
servers.
when necessary.
Does your solution accommodate that situation?
Have I misunderstood your answer to Bruce?
Rick (Shobuz99)
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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