Register yourself with one of the dynamic dns providers (dyndns.org, zoneedit.org, no-ip.com, etc.) You can have a domain name like ecradio.dyndns.org (or whichever service you use).
Download an appropriate dns client to update the dns server with your ip as it changes. Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Enterline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:02 PM Subject: Re: Dial-up stumble > Many thanks to Michael Roland and David Lambert for their > comments. Indeed, both the name of the target computer, which is running > WinVNC, and its Dial Up Connection in my client computer are > "ECRadio." But I'm too much of a novice to know how to make it DNS > resolvable. ECRadio server is NOT on my local 10/100 network or the > Internet, but is only accessible by direct dial-up. Do I have to first > dial up the two computers manually, and only then invoke VNC Viewer, or can > I get VNC Viewer (and Windows) to do the dialing and connecting automatically? > > Thanks again, Jim. > > > At 12:45 PM 02/27/03 +0000, Michael Roland wrote: > >Hallo! > > > >>I have a Dial-up Netrworking entry [..] named "ECRadio" with all [..] > >>defined, [..] click directly [..] dials up appropriately. > >>But when I start up WINVNC Viewer, and it asks for the server to > >>connect to, I run into trouble. I type in "ECRadio" correctly, and > > ^^^^^^^ > >So your server is (DNS resolvably) named 'ECRadio'?! > > > >>it immediately comes back saying, "Failed to get server address. Did you > >>type the host name correctly?" I know I typed it correctly, > >>but it won't even try dialing. > > > >I'm not quite sure I understand what you are doing. You have a dial-up > >connection which is called 'ECRadio' and this duc connects you to a > >server running WinVNC!? Now you use the name of the duc as the name > >for the vnc server? > > > >-- > >Michael Roland > > At 09:18 AM 02/27/03 -0500, David Lambert wrote: > >The name of your Dial-Up Connection is not the name of your server. > >You'll either need to type in that computer's IP address or the actual > >name of the computer, if it's on your network. > > > >Dave > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
