Wed, 11 Jul 2007, by jsa@pen.homeip.net:
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Your partner needs to get his/her public IP address, e.g. with http://www.whatismyip.org , and tell you that address (or sign up with dyndns.com). Then he or she needs to forward port TCP 5900 on the router to the PC on the inside.
Or you could just look at the email headers to pick up said partners IP. It will usually be the bottom one in the list of header hops.
I'll bet that the people, who know how to read RFC2822 headers, already know their address too, and do not need to ask here.
But VNC has another option, and that is for the OP to run a listening viewer, and have the partner connect to said viewer. Its made for precisely these situations where one end is behind a firewall.
Of course, if both are behind a firewall you have to do the routing trick.
Having NAT on both sides is quite common nowadays I think, bridging routers or PPPoE is not considered very safe (for 90% of the "consumer" type of clients). (no offence to OP). Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org