"S.C.Best" wrote:
>
> Raji:
> Hello! So if I recall the situation correctly...your
> workplace firewall only allows a handful of 'standard' ports
> thru, like HTTP and FTP, and not something like VNC.
>You've
> an NT machine behind this firewall at work, and want to VNC
> to your home Win98 machine that's using an always-on
> Internet connection.
> Tricky. :) Counterintuitively, it'd be a world easier
> if you had *another* machine at your home that was on the LAN
> with your Win98 machine that you wanted to connect with. I've
> not had much luck getting Win98 boxes to do networking tricks,
> as opposed to a Linux box or even a WinNT one.
> Any chance this is an option?
>
> -Scott
I don't see how having another machine at a home-LAN would help, and why
Win98 can't do network tricks (allthough I have no experience with it
98).
But let's be clear about what only being able to connect on standard FTP
and HTTP ports means.
1) You can only connect out on certain ports because of a packet
filtering firewall.
2) You can only connect out through a proxy, using certain protocols
with that proxy, like http or ftp (or maybe socks-protocol).
When your problem is 1) all you need to do is tell your vncserver to
listen to another port (a port your firewall allows.) Allthough this is
tricky if you insist upon using the Java applet. Or use a simple
portforwarder. I don't know about any portforwarders for windows, but
I'm sure they're available.
When your problem is 2) you need to get yourself a tunnel-tool, that
handles the protocol for you when talking to the proxy, usually http.
To make things a little more complicated: with problem 1) you can use a
http proxy for your portforwarder (if it supports HTTP CONNECT on your
port even without a tunnel-server.) That is basically what I made my
vncviewer for. I had a restrictive ISP with a packet filter on all but a
few ports, and couldn't control the port my (Workspot-) vncserver
listened to myself.
But I guess Radji's problem is, that the NT-binaries for httptunnel
don't not work on Win98? What about HTTPort (or whatever it is called
these days)?
>
> At 7:23 AM -0800 3/14/01, Raji Siddoo wrote:
> >Thanks for all your help guys. It seems I have some
> >hope to get this thing to work with even my feable
> >skills. But I have run into a snag.
> >
> >My machines is NT @ work (behind the firewall) but the
> >other is at home running on Win 98. I realized quickly
> >that when I try to run nts on Win 98 it does not seem
> >to be compatible and does not start up. Any other
> >versions of this software that may support running
> >both platforms or other suggestions anyone may have
> >would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >rs
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