On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga writes: > >> I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a >> non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me >> to do so. Great. > > I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more > intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people access the > same session at once. So I (being remote) tried starting a session with > NX, running KDE, which has a VNC feature, so the other person (with the > session runnin in his fast LAN) could attach via VNC. But tit did not > work well due some color bug.
Mmmh, that's disappointing. Would you mind having a look at http://www.nomachine.com/products.php "NX Free Edition"? That gave me the impression it was exactly what I was looking for. >> My problem is that I don't have a routable IP address. My ISP gives me >> a 192.x.x.x IP which is sort of nice because the bad guys can't see me >> ... but neither can the good guys. :-) (On top of that I have my own >> network with NAT set up so I can share my Internet connection among my >> various machines.) >> >> I do have root access to a (Debian) server with a static IP with a >> hosting company. So now I'm wondering if I can somehow take advantage >> of that static IP address. How would I do that? What would I need to >> set up on that server to allow my partner to reach my box? > > Setting a forward route with iptables would be the standard idea I'd > think. But I'd probably just set up an SSH tunnel, like this: > > ssh -R :5900:localhost:5900 debian-server > > So when someone connects to port 5900 on the debian server, the traffic > is forwarded to port 5900 on your machine, which would run the VNC > session. If the session should run on the non-linux guy's PC, he should > start the tunnel using putty or something. See the ssh man page and the > -R option. Awesome, that's very simple.
