You could open the port completely, and trust VNC and a very,very,very
good password.

Or, you could configure a SSH server on your network and connect with the
tunnel (with port forwarding). It would provide encryption and another set
of passwords for connection.

The other option is to replace the router with a full linux/bsd firewall
where you can selectively open ports. And not the crude functionality of
most commercial software firewalls or basic routers. Also, it can be the
SSH server, so you could use the SSH port forwarding.

These are summary solutions, if any sound interesting I can go into more
detail.

Joe Kexel

>Jonathan C. Miller said:
> I am running RealVNC behind a router with forwarding setup on Ports
5800-5900. I am also running McAfee Personal Firewall. I want access my
desktop machine where the RealVNC server is installed from various
Tmobile Hotspot locations (I like to do my work at Starbucks!). Since
the originating IP address will always different and will always be
unknown in advance, I am unable to configure the firewall to trust a
specific IP address. Besides the obvious solution of disabling the f
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