Munsie:
Heya. Hope this isn't too distracting a suggestion, but
since you've already tried for hours to get it working, and since
your PC's all run Windows on both sides...have you given EchoVNC
a try? Having setup both, I find it a lot easier to setup than a
SSH installation on Windows.
The idea is that you run an echoServer (Windows or Linux)
on a PC that you can connect to from both home and work (eg, on
one of your home PC's on your home LAN), doing any port-forwarding
or dynamic-DNS'ing as necessary. Once the echoServer is setup, you
simply connect to it using EchoVNC on both ends of the VNC
connection, with no further firewall/router adjustments needed.
When you make a VNC connection using EchoVNC, you can use the
echoServer "login names" as identifiers, so you don't need to
know the VNC Server's IP address. And similar to SSH, if you have
the OpenSSL toolkit installed, the data-content of the VNC
connection is end-to-end encrypted with 128-bit AES.
Apologies in advance for the "self-promotion" here, but
for Windows-to-Windows VNC'ing across the Internet, I think it's
an easier overall solution. Hope it helps!
-Scott
PS: http://www.echovnc.com
I've used VNC extensively for a few years and have never had a problem, at
least one that couldn't be solved, I've now got one. From home I can use
VNC to connect to PCs at work over a company setup VPN, works great. I have
also used it to assist my father in law, ADSL my end and dialup his end,
painfully slow but successful.
What I'm trying to do now is reverse it and connect to home from work and
from other peoples PCs. I want to be able to download the VNC Viewer and
Putty, both small so it will be quick and nothing to install on their PCs.
I have forwarded 3 ports through my router, work PC port 5900 to home PC
port 5900. Port 80 work to home PC port 22 and port 22 work to home PC port
22. I have done it this was as some places block certain ports but rarely
port 80. I can connect to my home PC over port 5900 but don't like the
lower level of security, to make it much safer I would like to do it using
SSH.
I have setup Winssh on my home PC as a service and can successfully connect
using Putty, what I can't do is then use VNC over it. The session stays
open for hours, I have tried for many hors to get it working.
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