Fw: Dial-up stumble

[William Hooper]

I believe this was meant for the list....
----- Original Message -----
From: "LUPTAK,MIROSLAV (HP-Slovakia,ex1)" <miroslav.luptak@hp.com>
To: <whooper@freeshell.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: RE: Dial-up stumble


> Jim,
>
> what is the version of Windows on your PC and on the remote PC? Is
> WinWNC.exe already running on the remote PC? When the dialup connection is
> established, do you know how to find out the IP address of the remote
> computer? I can send you some step-by-step procedure, if I know more. How
> good are you in working with Windows (so that I know how simple the
> procedure should be)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Miro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Hooper [mailto:whooper@freeshell.org]
> > Sent: Thu, Feb 27, 2003 20:47
> > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > Subject: RE: Dial-up stumble
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com
> > > [mailto:vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of James Enterline
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:02 PM
> > > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > > Subject: Re: Dial-up stumble
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks to Michael Roland and David Lambert  for their
> > > comments.  Indeed, both the name of the target computer,
> > > which is running
> > > WinVNC,  and its Dial Up Connection in my client computer are
> > > "ECRadio."  But I'm too much of a novice to know how to make it DNS
> > > resolvable.  ECRadio server is NOT on my local 10/100
> > network or the
> > > Internet, but is only accessible by direct dial-up.  Do I
> > > have to first
> > > dial up the two computers manually, and only then invoke VNC
> > > Viewer, or can
> > > I get VNC Viewer (and Windows) to do the dialing and
> > > connecting automatically?
> > >
> > > Thanks again,   Jim.
> >
> > If you are dialing directly into the machine use it's IP.
> >
> > Dial up the connection, run VNCviewer, put in the IP and
> > display number and
> > you are set.
> >
> > If that is too much trouble, put an ECRadio entry in your
> > Hosts file on the
> > client machine.  No need for a DNS server/overhead when
> > dialing directly
> > into a machine.
> >
> > --
> > William Hooper
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