Mike:
Heya. Getting port-forwarding working with Windows' ICS
is notoriously difficult. The best reference for it I've found
is here:
http://www.homenethelp.com/ics/ics-install-netxp.asp
Instead of ICS, and despite your caps lock key, I would
recommend you consider purchasing a low-end NAT'ing router, such
as something from LinkSys or D-Link. You can find them on EBay
for about $25, and they're easier to work with (and get support
for) than ICS.
Alternatively (and please forgive the self-promotion),
you can skip port-forwarding altogether by running an echoServer
on your WinXP machine. The idea is that you run the echoServer
on your "living room computer", and then simply login to it
using EchoVNC on both ends of the VNC connection. You can then
establish VNC connections using that PC as a smart "relay", 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 either. 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.
More info here: "http://www.echovnc.com";. Hope it helps!
-Scott
i have a set up like this at home . . . cable modem, living room
computer (shares internet connection) then 3 networked computers. All
are running XP home w/ SP2. I want to be able to connect to each
computer while i go away to college and be able to help my family fix
problems. but, i'm having trouble setting up the living room
computer to properly direct requests on ports to the other computers.
I AM NOT INTERESTED IN PURCHASING A ROUTER!! if someone could give me
a quick step by step or a website on how to tell the SP2 firewall to
send my requests to certain computers, that would be great!! I kept
trying to search the realvnc lists for this topic, but could never find
what i was looking for, if it is a repeat, i'm sorry, and please direct
me to the answer i'm looking for.
thanks mike
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