On Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > > Your partner needs to get his/her public IP address, e.g. with > > http://www.whatismyip.org , and tell you that address (or sign up > > with dyndns.com). Then he or she needs to forward port TCP 5900 on > > the router to the PC on the inside. > > Or you could just look at the email headers to pick up said partners > IP. It will usually be the bottom one in the list of header hops. > > But VNC has another option, and that is for the OP to run a listening > viewer, and have the partner connect to said viewer. Its made for > precisely these situations where one end is behind a firewall. > > Of course, if both are behind a firewall you have to do the routing > trick.
thanks for the hint, John, Yes we are both sitting behind firewalls, but I will have to search deeply in my head anyway to retrieve the knowledge about how to open and close a port in the Suse Firewall. Maybe I'll better google as the web might be better organized than my brain :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
