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Marcin Floryan wrote:
Hi!
I have recently installed a fresh openSuSE 10.3 for one of my friends who mainly uses his box to browse the Internet and has little technical skills. It seems like he has some problems with the sound card setup and I would like to investigate but have no access to the computer (ie. physical) and though on broadband the machine is behind a NAT (and possibly a firewall) with no public IP so can't connect to it either.
Is there a way that I could access the machine (ssh, vnc) with as little user intervention as possible (ideally just a simple command). I sit behind a NAT myself by should be able to configure some port forwarding if necessary.
Any suggestions welcome.
Cheers, Marcin
If you or your friend have no control of the NAT to forward ports, this could be done with ssh port forwarding (tunneling). If it is possible for him to connect to your machine, he could create a "remote port forward" by doing something like: ssh -R 5555:localhost:22 your_ip Then you should be able to connect to him, on port 5555 localhost. Best regards Sylvester Lykkehus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org