newbie question

[James Weatherall]

Scott,

Configuring a router normally involves creating a port-forward for port 5900
to the computer's local IP address.  The interfaces provided for setting
this up on most routers are incredibly trivial.

Is there some other factor that you think makes it difficult?

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott C. Best [mailto:sbest "at" best.com] 
> Sent: 27 April 2005 17:46
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: scott "at" fyrenice.com; jnw "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: newbie question
> 
> Wez:
> 
>  	Heya. I need to politely disagree: if Scott's wife
> was on a network behind an unconfigured firewall/router, your
> suggestion doesn't fully address his needs -- if she were using
> a dialup modem only, of course it would. But if not, then the
> unknown firewall/router issue is a much more substantial hurdle
> (IMO) that VNC Personal Edition doesn't yet address.
> 
> cheers,
> Scott
> 
> > The simplest approach would be to use VNC Personal Edition 
> (USD30, from
> > http://www.realvnc.com/products/personal) at both ends (for 
> encryption) and
> > then to use a dynamic DNS service, such as no-ip.com, to 
> assign a permanent
> > friendly name to her computer - they provide an application 
> that then keeps
> > that name up to date with the current IP address of the machine.
> >
> <snip>