[G4] Remote Desktop Question

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

It all depends on how the clients  router / firewall connects to the 
internet?

1 First you have to find out what port Remote Desktop uses?

For example VNC uses port 5900....

2. You have to configure port routing on the clients  firewall.

Focus on the client side........

So the clients DHCP address is for example 128.190.1.255, that means 
nothing to you on a remote and separate network.

But what you want to do is route traffic on port 5900 to that IP 
address on the clients local network( route port 5900 to this IP 
128.190.1.255)

This will require configuration of the router to do this...

3. So what you have to do is find out what IP address  the router has? 
On the client computer go to a site like http://www.whatismyip.com/   
get the remote computers IP address that it is connecting to the 
internet with. Say it is 32.104.25.255

That IP may be dynamic DHCP as well from the ISP. It will change and 
you will have to find out what it is over time? But it should stay the 
same for enough time to do / try what you want to do.

---more permanent solution for connecting to the client system---
{{{Look up Dynamic DNS  in Google for more information this... This 
will basically allow you to give your computer a name like apple.com 
and it is free....
Quick Read ME about  DNS http://www.technopagan.org/dynamic/
}}}

4.   on the client end you should give the computer you want to access 
a static DHCP address, say you make it the old stand by 
128.190.1.255....

5. on the server computer you type the IP of the router something like  
32.104.25.255:5900 and that should allow you to connect to the remote 
computer as if it were local.


let me know if this is of any help...
Dan Brieck Jr.



On Mar 12, 2005, at 9:35 AM, David DelMonte wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to use remote desktop (2.x) over the 
> internet - connecting two computers that are on different lans and 
> that use DHCP to get IP addresses?
>
> If so, can you please give me detailed instructions on how to set up 
> both clients and the server.
>
> THANK YOU!!
>
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