Automatic connection setup?

[William Hooper]

Benjamin Hill said:
>
> I'm sure someone has tried this before, but here is my
> question:
>
> I have a machine behind a firewall that I want to
> control.  I will have access to it once, then I won't
> have any more in-person acess, except to call up the
> people near that machine and annoy them.
>
> The machine I'm using to control the machine behind
> the firewall is at a fixed IP.
>
> So, is there a way to get the firewalled machine to
> "check" to see if I want to control it every so often?
>  I can't think of any other way to initiate control of
> a firewalled machine without it initiating a check for control.
>
If you have control of the firewall, it might be easier to open the VNC
port, but only for the fixed IP of the viewer (or better yet, open a port
for secure tunneling only to the fixed IP).

If that isn't possible you might want to look at the server's "Connect to
viewer" option:

Windows: winvnc --connect
http://www.realvnc.com/winvnc.html#3

Unix: vncconnect program
http://www.realvnc.com/man/vncconnect.html
-- 
William Hooper