Most likely however, you will not have access to her machine as the ports required for VNC will be blocked bye the local firewall and there will be no PAT for her specific IP.
Jmb. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [email protected] Subject: RE: newbie question Easiest way is to 1) Use something that has encryption built-in, such as Zebedee (includes a VNC-based app, but also encryption) or the "Enterprise" version of RealVNC. 2) Set up some sort of Dynamic DNS account (dyndns.org, ZoneEdit if you have your own domain name, or one of the other dynamic DNS providers) and run their updater app all the time so you don't have to know the IP address, just a machine name, i.e. mypc.dyndns.org or something like that. Google for "dynamic dns" and you'll probably come up with at least a dozen or so hits. John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: newbie question Dear List: I am a vnc newbie. Here's what I'd like to be able to do. My wife uses a laptop, most often at home, connected wirelessly to the internet at home. Occasionally she travels for business. I'd like to have vncserver just running all the time on her laptop, so that whenever I need to help her, on her windows xp home machine, I can launch vncviewer on my linux machine at work and help. I know that vnc works as i have had it working while at home between two networked computers. One was wirelessly connected, the other wired, to the same hub. When I connected there I was connecting to a discrete IP address of the machine running vncserver. This machine is behind a firewall. How do I set this all up so that 1) it is secure and 2) her laptop, which will be running vncserver, will bear a name and addressing that I can actually access across the internet? Scott -- _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
