11 Feb
2002
11 Feb
'02
6:38 p.m.
On 11-Feb-02 Laurie Brown wrote:
I use VNC a lot for both Linux and 'Doze support work, but there's a shortcoming as far as "hidden" machines are concerned. What I need is a sort of reverse VNC for accessing machines where I don't know the IP address. Let me explain what I want to do:
Run a VNC-type "server": a remote client connects to it, and I can then, from my "server" control the client machine.
For dial-up/DHCP/NAT situations where I can't reach a client directly, I need the client to be able to initiate the connection, but thereafter it to behave as if I'd done a normal VNC connect into it.
Does anyone have any ideas? Where better to ask?
It needs to support Linux and 'Doze, and at least 'Doze...
Port forwarding on the firewall box
--
Playing 'bop' is like Scrabble with all the
vowels missing.
Duke Ellington
Raphael Mankin
E-Mail: raph@panache.demon.co.uk
----------------------------------