[X4U] Remote Access to Mobile Laptop - Any Solution

[Neil Laubenthal]

I can think of a couple easy options . . . although I'm sure with more  
thought there are likely more.

TimbuktuPro - you can set the laptop to register itself with the  
Timbuktu server when it comes online and it will show up on the World  
List (I think that's what it's called) in the Timbuktu Pro console.  
This works fine but I think it might have needed an outgoing port  
opened.

LogMeIn - If you install LogMein (www.logmein.com) on the laptop it  
will login to their server via port 443 (which is always open on a NAT  
router unless it was specifically closed which will break https).  
LogMein is cool . . . it establishes a three way VPN between the  
browser on your support machine and the client. It ranges from free to  
a few bucks a month depending on which features you need/want.

BacktoMyMac is also a possibility; but this is trickier since you need  
a PnP capability in the NAT router.


On Feb 4, 2009, at 04:52, Rick Gordon wrote:

> I would like to find a way to access a laptop (for support purposes)  
> which will be mobile and connecting from different Internet cafés or  
> other locations where the preconfiguration of a NAT router to a  
> known local IP number is not possible.
>
> The laptop has dynamic IP software installed, so it will phone home  
> with the current WAN IP number with which it would be connected to  
> at any given time. But how, with Timbuktu, Apple Remote Access, VNC,  
> GoToMyPC, or whatever, might I be able to access it behind a NAT  
> router (what I assume to be the most likely scenario) which won't  
> have any port forwarding set up, and with which we will have no  
> administrative control?