As noted, buying a router is almost certainly the best and correct solution to your problem but I assume you have good reason for not wanting to pursue that avenue.
I suspect that you are attempting to go beyond the scope of Internet Connection Sharing which, to the best of my knowledge, is designed to allow several PCs to access the internet, but not to allow the internet to access several PCs. I seem to recall that it was, basically, a non-configurable NAT router so there simply is NO way in from the outside. But... What you might be able to do is have a VNC Server on one of your three PCs instigate a "reverse connection" to a listening Viewer on your remote PC since, in this case, all communication is in the direction that ICS expects. This assumes that your VNC Viewer PC is at a known IP address and is itself accessible from the net. If you are behind a college firewall then it probably isn't. If you don't want to BUY a router, why not go for a free one? There are (were) a number of programs out there (FREESCO springs to mind) that boot any PC from floppy and turn it into a fairly capable router. You could use one of these to "reconfigure" the living-room PC for the duration of your support session. If you've got an old 486 lying around anywhere, you could have a permanent "free" router. You might also trawl through the archives for references to service providers who act as a "middle man" between two hidden PCs, each of which initiates an outbound connection (for ease of firewall traversal) to a central host which then joins them together. However, some people have expressed security concerns about these solutions and they are probably not cheap. Regards, Andrew Borland (UK) _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
