Scott:
Heya. There are two good and easy solutions I know of which are built upon VNC components:
1. First is "UltraVNC SC": "www.ultravnc.com". With it, your wife would startup the server, and it would be pre-configured to connect back just to you, where a VNC Viewer in "Listner Mode" is awaiting it. Uses RC4 for data-channel encryption, and I've heard good things about it. Only downside is that your wife would have to initiate all of the remote-control sessions; you wouldn't be able to connect whenever you wanted (ah, marriage...)
2. Second is EchoVNC: "www.echovnc.com". With it, you run a relay server at a "fixed" location (ie, static-IP, or dynamic-DNS) and the EchoVNC agent automatically makes a connection to the relay server when it's started. You can then connect to the VNC server on your wife's laptop, without her needing to know her IP address, and without her needing to make any firewall adjustments. Works with any flavor of VNC you already have installed.
I'm the coordinator behind the EchoVNC project, so I've heard good things about that project too. :)
Hope that helps!
-Scott
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?
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