I’ve not used VNC before. The scenario is: I want to operate my wife’s XP computer in a work environment from a remote Suse 11.0 computer. I see openSUSE has tight VNC. I see there’s a windows xp version of tight VNC and there’s also a GNU free offering of ultraVNC for windows.
Do I use tightVNC on both the Suse and the XP machines (I think so)?
The work environment is very large, a hospital with all that entails and with a sophisticated firewall, addressed through a domain name. My wife’s work computer has a fixed IP address on a subnet dedicated to the department she works in.
What do I ask the IT department at the workplace to open in their firewall so I can vnc direct to her computer?
First, good luck with this… IT departments don’t typically like
opening ports like this at all. Basically assuming you have SUSE setup
properly you’ll be able to access the main desktop (display :0.0) to see
what the local user is actually doing, right? If that’s your goal then
it will probably use, on the host, port 5900. You’ll need to open this
in the host firewall. You’ll also need to open this port in the
corporate firewall(s) or some port that will forward to this ip/port in
the same. For example they may have you forward 15900 to 5900 on this
box to prevent scanning from being as efficient since VNC is
encryption-less by default and a wide open 5900 port is just asking to
be attacked. You should be able to see the port listening on the host
before the connection is made, of course and if not you need to make
sure that is done and VNC works locally before you try getting it
through a firewall from home.
netstat -anp | grep 'LISTEN ’ | grep 590
Good luck.
swerdna wrote:
> I’ve not used VNC before. The scenario is: I want to operate my wife’s
> XP computer in a work environment from a remote Suse 11.0 computer. I
> see openSUSE has tight VNC. I see there’s a windows xp version of tight
> VNC and there’s also a GNU free offering of ultraVNC for windows.
>
> Do I use tightVNC on both the Suse and the XP machines (I think so)?
>
> The work environment is very large, a hospital with all that entails
> and with a sophisticated firewall, addressed through a domain name. My
> wife’s work computer has a fixed IP address on a subnet dedicated to the
> department she works in.
>
> What do I ask the IT department at the workplace to open in their
> firewall so I can vnc direct to her computer?
>
> Any other tips/advice would be very welcome?
>
> A link to a tutorial would be nice too?
>
> Thanks
>
> Swerdna
>
>
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I’ll get it working at home on a LAN, Suse to xp. Then from a notebook (using wireless) to xp the home LAN (using cable). Then I’ll get it working on my wife’s subnet at work. Then I’ll feel confident to go see the IT department at her work. She has some leverage there because she works for a group of surgeons who pay the hospital for their facilities and as we know, money opens all sorts of doors, perhaps even ports too.
Hi
I would also look at using a non standard port eg 15900 the other
option is to look at using krdc, then on the xp machine allow the
remote desktop connection.
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Have you Googled? Just using ‘vnc vista’ (sans quotes) found some
options that look promising.
Good luck.
swerdna wrote:
> Just an afterthought to all this:
> Is there a “free” version of VNC that works with vista?
> If not then what software would you recommend to do the job?
>
> Thanks
> Swerdna
>
>
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There is apparently no workaround (that I can find) that allows VNC to operate as a service on the vista machines unless I pay money approx $US30/50 for realVNC personal/enterprise. That grates.
Version 1.0.5 looks free and supposedly supports Vista.
Good luck.
swerdna wrote:
> ab@novell.com;1878238 Wrote:
>> Have you Googled? Just using ‘vnc vista’ (sans quotes) found some
>> options that look promising.
>>
>> Good luck.
> There is apparently no workaround (that I can find) that allows VNC to
> operate as a service on the vista machines unless I pay money approx
> $US30/50 for realVNC personal/enterprise. That grates.
>
>
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swerdna wrote:
> I missed that --and it had a big photo on the home page saying vista
> support (new in September)!
> Thanks I’ll try it out.
>
>
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I’m have been drawn into a deeper involvement with realvnc because paying clients “want it now!” on xp. But I’ll get back to UVNC/vista in the coming months because I want to know. And I’ll remember to let u know what happens.