Thanks, I'll give this some thought!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott C. Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: February 05, 2004 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mark
Subject: Re: VNC behind Watchguard SOHO


Mark:

        Heya. The part that is unclear is how you can connect
to Joe at all if your SOHO box doesn't allow port-forwarding. My guess is
that the SOHO has put Joe into the "DMZ", meaning it forwards all ports, by
default, to Joe. Not very secure, but I'm sure it works.

        Here are some ideas to get things working better:

1. Install an SSH server on Joe, and SSH clients on Mary and
   Martha. You can then use SSH to setup a "reverse tunnel",
   so that port 5901 on Joe actually connects to Mary, and
   5902 connects to Martha, etc.

2. You can VNC to Joe, and then from Joe open a VNC Viewer and
   connect to Mary or Martha.

3. You can replace your SOHO box with a $30 LinkSys box that
   handles this much more nicely.

4. You can install Kaboodle on Joe, and then setup a "personal
   VPN" connection to Joe from anywhere on the Internet. Once
   connected, you can connect to Mary or Martha (Kaboodle uses
   Zebedee to act like a connection-forwarding service).

        Hope one of these helps!

-Scott

> Ok, let's hope this is clearer:
>
> I have a Windows2k Network with a single fileserver.  Let's call it 
> "Joe". This network shares a DSL connection to the internet, and we 
> have a Watchguard SOHO Firewall.  This network has (among others) two 
> workstations. One is running WindowsXP-Pro, let's call that one 
> "Mary".  Another workstation is running Windows98SE, let's call that 
> one "Martha".
>
> Right now, I can successfully run VNC Server on Joe, and from anywhere 
> with an internet connection, use the VNC viewer to connect to Joe.
>
> I'd like to also run VNC Server on Mary and Martha, and, from anywhere 
> with an internet connection, use VNC viewer to connect to Mary and 
> Martha.
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