Wed, 11 Jul 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >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 > > > I think he meant routers. If you are both behind routers, you will each > have to forward port 5900 to the correct internal IP address of your > computer.
That's not correct. The 'client' (viewer) side connects from some high-port (1024-65525), and does not require a return connection from the server, so as long as the viewer PC can access high ports on the Internet, all should work. Of course, at $DAYJOB, I do /not/ let company PCs have unrestricted access to high ports on the outside, better safe than sorry with Windows PCs, dealing with company data and passwords etc... Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
