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Help, setting up remote control for a non-profit

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toesonthenose

Junior Member
Hi all,
I need to setup remote control abilities for a non-profit company that does a lot of good things for the community. They have a dsl connection at their office with a Zyxel dsl router. One of the employees needs to remote control into her desktop from home. I was planning to setup TightVnc so that she could do that. My big question is how? I know I should designate her machine to be in the dmz (or at least setup some type of port forwarding). So then I should install the VNC server on her machine at work and the client on her machine at home. How do I successfully point her home machine to her machine? I tried to access it via their public IP address, but to no avail. Can anyone be as so kind to help out a little here. Thanks so much in advance!!!!
 
You should be able to just set up standard port fowarding for ports 5800 & 5900 to her PC's private IP address and then access from the outside via the public IP.

From a web browser you would just access it like this:

             http://PUBLICIPADDRESS:5800


Since it's DSL I assume the public IP changes and if so you might want to look into something like dyndns.org
 
Actually, they do have a static IP. I was a little suprised myself, but hey, it sure makes things easier. Thanks for the info, I will give that a shot. Thanks again!
 
Do not designate the computer to the DMZ. By doing so you creating a security hazard.

I personally will go with UltraVNC it is faster and simpler.

Link to: Ultr@VNC v1.0.

It is one file, during installation it would ask whether you want to install the Server or the Viewer.

Install the Server on the Computer that should be Controlled in the Charity organization.

During installations check yes to the Hook Options.

Once installed leave the default as is just change the Password.

Open port 5900 in the Router for the VNC server computer. If there is software Firewall or any other TCP/IP interceptor open port 5900 as well.

Install the Viewer on the Controlling Computer. Open Port 5900 through the system (as you did with the server).

Start the Viewer. Put the Static IP click Connect. If connected the Password Box will popup type the password and enjoy.

 
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