----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:57 PM Subject: Firewall (?) problem [snip] > Work machine (would be viewer) is running NT, and is behind a firewall. There is no way in hell any of the network people are going to let me know anything relating to it or give me permission for anything. It's a state system, and we can't do much at all. We aren't allowed to change the settings on our own monitors. So I have no idea what ports are what or what I could do about it if I did know. [snip] > Now I get the idea that since I'm behind a firewall, there are problems, but I sort of had this hope that they were soluble. I'd like to do this the easiest way possible, and preferably not have the network people sicced on me, but I don't know what way is even possible let alone easy. >
If you are behind a firewall it is most likely set up to just allow "valid" traffic through (web traffic for example). Even if you use the web viewer on VNC you still need a direct connection to the computer for the VNC traffic to work. Depending on the way the firewall is set up there may be ways to "tunnel" traffic through it, but from the perspective of a "network person" this is going to get you in trouble. Short answer: if you can't give the "network people" a good reason to open up the firewall you will have a hard time doing it. And if you do manage to get it set up you will most likely have some explaining to do down the road when you are caught circumventing the "network people's" policies. -- William Hooper No one is perfect, but some of us are closer than others _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
