> On Jul 11, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Niels Kobschätzki <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 11. Jul 2017, at 23:33, Kurt H Maier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >>> Never heard of whatismyip.org? >>> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile >> >> Never heard of NAT? > > Thank you all. I will probably get them into an OpenVPN-network and since > there are nice GUIs available on the Mac for that, they should be able to > connect (or I try to implement a launchd-service). I can give them always the > same IP and do not even have to check for that then. And then I use VNC with > the built-in VNC-server from MacOS. > > Thanks again, > > Niels >
Just to throw my US$0.02 in, I have three things set up: 1) vnc.myname.domain — I have static IPs, but you could use DynDNS to have a DNS name point to. . . 2) a static nat rule that takes the IP assigned to vnc.myname.domain and forwards port 5500 (the default listening VNC port) to. . 3) a listening VNC viewer I run when I talk to my family members. I have used (a variation) of this setup since the late 90s (with my grandmother — in her 80s, using one of the original iMacs; my mother — in her 70s now, with her goddamn PCs that make me want to scream (win XP -> 10); my sister-in-law — in her 60s.). My sister-in-law’s is the most challenging. Well, it was. See, she used to ask me for help from work. I could VPN in there and help her out. But then she started working a LOT more from home, and she didn’t like using VNC to connect to her PC, using RDP instead. . . Long story short, I set it up so she connects her Windows 10 laptop to my listening VNC server, where I can see her VPN to work, connect to her Windows 7 desktop, and run her Windows XP emulator so she can run Paradox for DOS. You can’t make this shit up. FML Sean PS Each person had a shortcut or whatever OS-equivilant thing to launch VNC server and connect to a listening VNC client. Occasionally they lose the shortcut, and I walk them through launching and connecting manually — it’s pretty easy, since they know how to type in a URL for the most part, and that’s about all they have to do.
