On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Phill Coxon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:08 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: >> At work: windows computer which runs putty and vnc server. >> >> At home: linux machines, one running openssh server. >> >> Therefore I can only initiate ssh from the office end. >> >> I can easily use putty to enable access to web servers on the home >> machine, but can I set something up so that I can connect to the vnc >> server on the office machine from a vnc client at home? Is it as >> simple as connecting port 5900 on the windows machine to a defined >> port, say 2000, on the openssh server at home? > > Make sure the work machine has a static IP on the work network. > > In the ADSL Modem / Router at work set up TCP port forwarding for ports > 5800 and 5900 to the work machine running the VNC Server.
Sorry, I thought it was inherent from my question that I don't have access to the router at work. Besides I'd be pretty silly to allow vnc access to the web at large.
