Well, I've been trying to figure this out on-and-off for about a year now. As you may have guessed it's not mission-critical but I would like to get it working.
I was inspired to have another crack at it by the recent thread from Kevin Taylor about trying to get VNC working over the internet to support his mother's PC. His situation is similar (but not quite the same) as my own, so let me take a step back and spell out all the circumstances. My wife uses our PC at home to access the stock market. She has never been particularly proficient with computers but has become quite good at what she needs to do for the stock market stuff. However when something unusual happens she is generally at a loss as to how to "fix" it and I'm at the other end of the phone trying to figure out what's wrong (she's a wonderful woman but has no patience for misbehaving computers and her solution to unexpected dialog boxes is to push the "go away" button - generally without reading the associated message). The PC at home is running Windows ME and gets a dynamic ip address from our internet service provider. At work I use a Windows XP SP1 computer behind a corporate firewall/proxy and although technically I have a dynamic ip address served via DHCP, in practice it typically never changes. I work in the IT department as a programmer but my knowledge of network stuff is limited. My boss has said he's happy for me to support the wife through VNC but he doesn't want to open any "extra" ports through the firewall for security reasons. I've read about tunnelling with Putty but most of the doco and faq's seems to assume there is a Linux server at the other end. May I ask for suggestions as to what to do at both ends in my particular circumstances please? Thanks Wayne Ivory IT Analyst Programmer Wespine Industries Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
