On Fri, September 8, 2006 14:05, Jay Wooten wrote: > On Sep 8, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Keith Hutchison wrote: >> I regularly support both Mac and PC clients, who do have dynamic ips >> and no idea of what port forwarding, or a router is. >> >> You set up a machine to be in VNC listen mode. > > Hmm, if they have a standard Cable-Modem, it: > > 1) Has a dynamic IP address > 2) Only gives out 1 IP, for a single connection > > Yes, you can pay to upgrade it so it hands out more IP's/has a static > IP. > > Most people we deal with just plug in a router on the LAN side of the > cable modem. > > Either way you have to open Port 5900 so you can VPN - is there > another way do to it without opening the port? >
I think you missed Keith's point here, there is this funky thing you can do with VNC whereby the server (your customer) can say "let jay.wooten.com connect" and it'll search for your VNC client at jay.wooten.com and set up your connection. That way only you need the static IP address, your customers just need to ping your VNC client to let you in. Also, when did VPN come into the conversation, it was all about VNC before! > ---- > Postgressql is a great database - nothing wrong with it at all. The > REALSQLServer made more sense for our situation, point and click > install, no command line, direct support from the same company that > makes our chosen development environment. > > Case and point: Go to the home of the postgres database. > > http://www.postgresql.org > > Find a Mac installer. Hmmm. > Find Mac GUI client tools. Hmmm. > Ok, well go to the top of the page and do a search for Macintosh. Hmmmm. > > Ok, check out some of the 3rd party Macintosh Installers: > > http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/ > http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html > http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/07/postgresql.html > > Doing a search on versiontracker reveals a few more. Check them out. > Now install and setup the REALSQLServer. > http://www.enterprisedb.com looks interesting, it has a Mac OS X installer and management tools etc. It's based on Postres, has anyone tried it? -- Ian M. Jones ________________________________________ IMiJ Software http://www.imijsoft.com http://www.ianmjones.net (blog) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
