Scott, The simplest approach would be to use VNC Personal Edition (USD30, from http://www.realvnc.com/products/personal) at both ends (for encryption) and then to use a dynamic DNS service, such as no-ip.com, to assign a permanent friendly name to her computer - they provide an application that then keeps that name up to date with the current IP address of the machine.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 April 2005 15:38 > 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 > > -- > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type > application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc] > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
