I have a network with a bunch of workstations configured as a workgroup. The System Administrator opened port 5900 for me and forwarded that to the wan side of the workgroup’s router. I then forwarded from the router to one IP on the LAN side and tested VNC to control one of the computers remotely. It works fine on port 5900.
Here’s the question:
The client now wants access to all the computers on the LAN via VNC. I believe I simply have to ask the System Admin to open a port range like 5900-6010 (instead of the single port 5900 for one computer) and forward port 5901 to the second computer on the LAN, 5902 to the third, 5903 to the fourth computer … and so on.
Sure, but is that really the best thing in the world to do? You’ll need
to have a map of all the boxes’ maps to port and you’ll also need to
train your users to use alternate ports with those maps. That’s not
hard, but you will also need to make sure you don’t allow random
stinkers to access these machines which means whitelisting your users’
home address and hoping nobody figures out your users IP addresses and
getting in. Also VNC is completely lacking in security on its own.
A VPN (openvpn) would be easy, potentially free and would get past all
of the above.
Good luck.
swerdna wrote:
> I have a network with a bunch of workstations configured as a workgroup.
> The System Administrator opened port 5900 for me and forwarded that to
> the wan side of the workgroup’s router. I then forwarded from the router
> to one IP on the LAN side and tested VNC to control one of the computers
> remotely. It works fine on port 5900.
>
> Here’s the question:
> The client now wants access to all the computers on the LAN via VNC. I
> believe I simply have to ask the System Admin to open a port range like
> 5900-6010 (instead of the single port 5900 for one computer) and forward
> port 5901 to the second computer on the LAN, 5902 to the third, 5903 to
> the fourth computer … and so on.
>
> Am I right?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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