On Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007, John Andersen wrote:
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.
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.
thanks for the hint, John, Yes we are both sitting behind firewalls, but I will have to search deeply in my head anyway to retrieve the knowledge about how to open and close a port in the Suse Firewall. Maybe I'll better google as the web might be better organized than my brain :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org