Thanks everyone for your well-wishes on our upcoming baby! It was such a pleasant surprise to have all the warm wishes. It looks like at this point, my wife will get induced on Wednesday, 9/24, but that may change. I'll post an update a couple of days.
As to my issue getting VNC to work -- I think I am close. Steve Palocz and a couple others suggested that I set-up essentially a reverse connection, setting up my VNC Viewer at home in "listen mode", and then to add a new client at work to point to the viewer at home. The great thing about this solution, is that I would be able to use Windows Scheduler (freeware) to run the command line "c:\...\TightVnc\WinVNC -connect mydyndns.org::5500" every minute or so to attempt set up the connection. That way all I would have to do is launch the viewer in listen mode at home, and within a minute or so my work PC's screen should appear when the Windows Scheduler attempts to make the connection. Using the command line with TightVNC doesn't bring up any error window, and doesn't interfere with any other programs running on my PC, so having the Scheduler run this every minute is almost totally non-intrusive. Problem is -- I can't find a Macintosh VNC Viewer that has the "listen mode" functionality. I've sent e-mails to a couple of the authors of the viewers I've found, but haven't heard back yet. I even tried running the windows VNC Viewer in listen mode through Virtual PC running Windows 98, and mapped the port to the Virtual machine, but I was not able to establish the connection (probably because Virtual PC's "Virtual Switch" is just too slow). Anyone know of a mac viewer that has "listen mode"? Or, does anyone know how to get a Unix viewer (which has "listen mode" to work on Mac OS X? I WAS able to get the connection going the other way -- remote controling my mac at home from my work PC. That confirms that I set up the port forwarding on my home router properly, and that my dyndns.org account (giving me a permanent URL for my dynamic IP address) is also set up correctly. I'm so close, I can taste it? T-minus 3 days to the baby... anymore help would be greatly appreciated! - Ralph Gaboury > > From: Ralph Gaboury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/09/18 Thu PM 12:12:14 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Beginner VNC User - About to have a baby! > > 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] > ------------------------- 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
