Hello: My wife is about to have a baby (due 9/25), and I've been trying to figure out how to get VNC to work through my office's firewall so that I can work from home once the baby comes. I've read through several dozen help articles, and postings to this list trying to figure it out, but the network and programming lingo is a little over my head. Thanks in advance for putting up with my "Newbie" ignorance.
Here's my set-up: At work I have a Windows 98 PC, behind a firewall (VNC shows my "IP" as 192.168. x.xx. I read in a post that this definately means that I am behind a firewall). I do not have administrative access to the firewall. (I could request that certain changes be made, but it would be a long process, and probably wouldn't be approved of.) At home, I have a Macintosh G4 running OS 10.1 (soon to be 10.2). My Mac is hooked up to the Internet through a router (Netgear Websafe) hooked up to a cable modem (Motorolla Surfboard) -- I use a router because I am also using an Analog Telephone Adapter for the Vonage voice-over-Internet service (which works beautifully by the way - e-mail me with any questions you might have about Vonage). I am trying to connect to my work PC from home. From reading all the info I could on the Internet, I gleaned that one way to get this to work, would be to "tunnel" through my work firewall using SSH. Questions on this: 1) Is there a free OpenSSH server program for Windows 98? 2) Can I install this on MY pc at work, or do I have to install this on the machine with the firewall (which would foreclose this option)? 3) If I can install an OpenSSH server on my pc, how do I do it, and properly configure it for my VNC connection(somehow, I doubt there is a nice installer program that does it all for you)? 4) I found an OpenSSH client for Mac OS X (although I'm having trouble opening the disk image for it). Once I install that, how do I set up the SSH "tunnel" between my mac and my work pc? 4a) Do I even have to install OpenSSH under OS X? From what I understand, the Unix core of OS X already has OpenSSH incorporated into it. If that's so, how do I access this and get it to create the "tunnel" to my work PC? 5) Once I set up the "tunnel," how do I tell the VNC client (which I found via Download.com) on my mac to connect to the VNC Server on my work PC? (I think you type in localhost:1 or something similar to that) 6) Is there a way to hook up through an SSH secure tunnel using the the JAVA interface through a web browser, so that I could hook up no matter where I am (say, for example, from a web cafe)? 7) Do I have to change any of my router settings to get this to work (from reading the articles on the Internet, it doesn't look like it, since this would an outgoing connection -- I'll tackle opening ports on my router to connect from work at some point in the future). Whew, thanks to whomever takes the time to read through all that, and to reply! Although I like to think of myself as computer "savvy," this whole thing has made me feel like I know nothing! Thanks again. Ralph Gaboury ------------------------- Ralph Gaboury [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
