Firewall question

[Habermann, David (DA)]

Source was posted to the list about a year ago.  Works with Outlook 98 but may need a little work/recompile for your environment.  Outlook 2000 has this facility included (or so I understand).

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Malencia, Ken [mailto:KMalencia "at" AlleghenyLudlum.com]
Sent: 15 June, 2000 12:24 PM
To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
Subject: RE: Firewall question


Dave,

Is your email monitor/processor a commercial/shareware product?  Can you
share any information about it with the list?

Ken Malencia
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Habermann, David (DA) [SMTP:habermann "at" dow.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:09 AM
> To:	vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject:	RE: Firewall question
> 
> I do what you are describing routinely.  My method (all W98 machines)
> is:
> 
> 1) Start up vncviewer on my home pc.
> 2) Send a specially formatted e-mail to my office mailbox (e-mail is
> the only inbound traffic our firewall will accept).
> 3) A software agent monitors my inbox for these special messages.
> When received, a command is sent to WinVNC to trigger a "server
> initiated connection" to my homepc (outbound through the firewall
> now).
> 
> These connections occur on port 5500, so you will have to set up that
> port on your firewall as well (or you can look for some hacks
> previously posted to this list that allow this port number to be
> adjusted.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dave Habermann
> --------------------------------------------------------
> At 01:38 PM 6/14/00, you wrote:
> >With NAT you have to open up port 5900 for connection.
> >
> >Stuart
> 
> Thanks for the reply! Port 5900 is currently open, as I *can* connect
> from *inside* the firewall to a host outside. The problem occurs in
> that I need the connection in the other direction, .. i.e. I need to
> make the machine *inside* the firewall the host, and I cannot see a
> way to connect from that machine as a host to a remote. (It is running
> an off-net IP address.) IOW, I need the 'host/server' (behind the
> firewall) to call the 'remote' because the host is NAT and can only
> support an outbound connection.
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