Accessing desktop from Windows

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Ryan Hitch wrote:
> I'm a newbie to VNC, so please accept my advance apologies if I say
> anything really stupid :-)

Sure.  :-)

> Basically - to sum up - my prefered desktop computer is an Acorn RiscPC
> (running RiscOS 3.7) I have downloaded the VNCserver for this OS and
> also the viewer for Windows 9x/NT (which is what I have to use during
> the day at Uni).  Ideally I want to be able to leave my RiscPC turned on
> all day and access it from the Windows based PC's at Uni, essential
> using the PC at Uni just to provide the keyboard and screen.  Have I
> correctly understood the documentation - is this what VNC allows me to
> do?

You have correctly understood it.  In fact, you can access the machine
from _any_ other machine for which a viewer is available, and from
which you can setup a TCP connection to your personal machine.

> My question is whether anyone else out there does such a similar thing
> and/or whether they or anyone else can help me on how to set everything
> up (my computer in my room will be connected to the university network,
> like all the ones in the University computer centre).

One of my colleagues does this to access his home machine; our offices
have an ADSL connection and his machine at home is on a cable modem.

As long as the target machine has an accessible IP address (private
address on networks which you are not on will require some sort of
tunnel through the masquerade box) and no one's blocking port 5900,
you're fine.

Cheers,
-- jra
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