Ron, You didn't explicitly say so but I assume there are 2 separate LANs, one at the remote site and one where you are, and the LANs are connected by the Internet. Furthermore I assumed that there is a separate DHCP for each LAN. I am also assuming you are using Windows (though this should apply in the case of UNIX too but I am not familiar with that environment).
If this is the case there are a couple of ways you can use VNC. The first is a VPN (PPTP) connection between the two where you would set up a VPN on the remote system and connect to it with your computer. In effect your computer appears as another system on that network. It is a nice solution because you are just dealing with one LAN and you can reference all the systems by name rather than IP. It does require a fair amount of work to set up a VPN so that may not be a real possibility unless you need the VPN for some other purpose (it may even already exist!). A second way to do it is to use different ports for VNC and forward them (in the router) to the systems you want to get to on the remote LAN. It's not as tough as it sounds. Forwarding is a pretty standard function in most routers - just choose a port for each system and make sure you use the same port number on VNC (you can probably get info from the archives on this web site on how to do that). The other thing you need to do is either choose static IP addresses for the remote systems (you don't want the DHCP assigning them addresses or you will have a moving target!) or sign up with a Dynamic DNS service so that the name always gets you to the same system (even if the IP address changes). Alan Watchorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] (760) 692-4300 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Crummett Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remote VNC I have a question that I have wanted to ask for a long time, but didn't even know where to begin on it. I now feel like I have enough of a grasp to ask, so here goes... I need to be able to VNC into some computers located about two hours from here. During a recent on-site visit I tried to gather the information needed for VNC and this is what I have: The IP addresses are assigned by DHCP and begin 192.168 I have the IP address of the router that the computers connect to My IP address is also a 192.168 address I have the IP address of my router I feel that I have the information necessary to VNC into these "remote" computers, but my question is how? There are so many 192.168 addresses behind routers and whatnot that I know a simple 'ping 192.168.xxx.xxx' will not do the job; any suggestions? I hope that this has made sense. That's it from here. More to come as the plot thickens... Ron Crummett CayNet Consulting, LLC (208) 424-1590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.caynetco.com [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
