Frederick:
Heya. First off, doing anything on your school computers
which is contrary to specific IT policy could be grounds for
disciplinary action, or worse. This may be one case in which
asking for permission is easier than asking for forgiveness.
To answer your questions...yes, you can run a VNC Viewer
without formally "installing" it, in a Windows sense. You can
put the Viewer on a flash-disk, and simply double-click it.
As for the multiple layers of unconfigured firewalls,
this shouldn't be a problem if you use EchoVNC to tunnel your
VNC connection. Get it setup like this: at home, install EchoVNC
("http://www.echovnc.com";) on your VNC Server PC, and use it to
login to the demo-echoserver site (the EchoVNC startup Wizard
will offer to do this automatically). Then put EchoVNC, the
echoWare DLL, and a VNC Viewer onto a flash-disk. To enable
128-bit AES encryption, put the libeay32.dll on the disk too. On
your school PC, startup EchoVNC from the flash-disk, and login to
the same echoServer. Now from school, you'll be able to connect to
your VNC Server using just the "login names" you connected to the
demo echoserver with; you won't need to hassle with IP addresses,
port forwards, dynamic DNS, etc, etc. The echoserver acts as a
"relay" between the two endpoints, so as long as you can connect
to the echoserver, you can ultimately make a VNC connection.
Again, though, please see the above warning regarding
working around your school's IT policy. Some schools are more
forgiving than others, but I suspect yours is one which places
a high emphasis on "obeying the rules".
cheers,
Scott
I'm a student who needs (I repeat, needs) to be able to access my desktop at
home from school, and also needs to have file-transfer capabilities, but
there are many complications.
First, our campus computers are maintained so that no client software
(including VNC viewers and ActiveX plugins) can be installed without proper
authorization from the IT staff. Does anybody know of a way to use VNC with
a viewer that can be stored on physical media and run without installing? I
know it sounds strange to use physical media to transfer a viewer while I
could use it to transfer files, but I really need to access my remote
desktop.
Secondly, my home computer is behind a NAT/UPnP-enabled router which blocks
out many ports. I have no way of changing the port-redirect settings on my
SMC Barricade because it is maintained centrally, although I might be able
to contact them. However, does anybody a viewer that complies with the above
condition (#1) and this restriction?
Lastly, our campus computers are also protected behind numerous firewalls,
to which access is completely impossible. Is it possible to access my home
computer through the campus network, over the internet, through my router,
without installing a viewer?
*Campus Computer* -> Academy Firewall -> Academy Firewall ->
*INTERNET* -> Home Router -> *Home Computer*
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