William Hooper's suggestion will work 90% of the time in my situation. The host computer is unattended 90 % of the time, awaiting potentially some dozen clients calling in (never simultaneously). To make it easy for them, I can instruct them to make a fixed address entry in their Hosts file, "www.xxx.yyy.zzz ECRadio," and thereafter only use the name ECRadio. Since I have management access to the host, I can easily supply the fixed address to it. Now, what is an appropriate fixed address to assign, that will not be likely to interfere with the users' own LAN addresses or other activities?

The 10% of the time when this might be problematic is when I am onsite at the host and want to use it to access the Internet as a client. Of course, at such times I could easily temporarily switch it back to automatic addressing, but if I leave the site and forget to restore the permanent address, that's trouble. Any nifty alternate ideas?

Jim.


> 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.

If you are dialing directly into the machine use it's IP.

Dial up the connection, run VNCviewer, put in the IP and display number and
you are set.

If that is too much trouble, put an ECRadio entry in your Hosts file on the
client machine.  No need for a DNS server/overhead when dialing directly
into a machine.

--
William Hooper
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