-- Original message --
From: G. Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon Jun 2 16:36:34 2003

> I have a home network through a Linksys router to an ISP
> (Comcast, formerly AT&T Broadband) that uses dynamic IPs.
>
>I want to access a machine on my network from elsewhere on
>the web (VNC works GREAT over the local network!).

>Anyone do this? Would I have to move the target machine outside
>the router/firewall?

Hi Mark

I just implemented this myself.  I've currently got a 4 machine network
running, with one machine connected to the net via ADSL, sharing via WinME
with ICS (I'm buying a proper router soon!).

What I did was:
- setup a dynamic DNS service - I used www.dyndns.org (mainly because
they're free!).  That way I don't need to worry about any change in the IP
address (even though this doesn't happen very often), as I run the
DirectUpdate freeware program on the server, which sends the latest IP to
the dyndns servers.  I can then just access my machine using the format of:
machinename.dyndns.org
- the next step was to open the relevant port in my firewall to allow
inbound VNC connections
- finally you need to alter the routing table in the your router's setup
options (I used a program to change my ICS settings) so that any inbound
traffic on ports 580x or 590x are redirected to the internal machine on your
LAN (e.g., 192.168.0.3).  You can then access your machine remotely either
at http://machinename.dyndns.org:580x (where you've specified x on your
machine running VNC server) or use the VNC viewer and view it at
machinename.dyndns.org:x.  You could obviously route the different ports
indivdually -e.g., 5802 to 192.168.0.2, 5803 to 192.168.0.3, etc. if you've
got a few machines you need access to.

Hope that's of some help!

Cheers

Alan
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