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Wed, 11 Jul 2007, by spleeyah@spleeyah.com:
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
I think he meant routers. If you are both behind routers, you will each have to forward port 5900 to the correct internal IP address of your computer.
That's not correct. The 'client' (viewer) side connects from some high-port (1024-65525), and does not require a return connection from the server, so as long as the viewer PC can access high ports on the Internet, all should work. Of course, at $DAYJOB, I do /not/ let company PCs have unrestricted access to high ports on the outside, better safe than sorry with Windows PCs, dealing with company data and passwords etc... 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