Need help with Pcanywhere

[abovewood]

I sometimes use pcanywhere to access my desktop at school from my home PC. The Work PC has IP address 150.75.74.133 (for example). I put in that IP address in the pcanywhere remote setting.

When I use school's dial up, which gives me an tcp/ip 150.75.34.54 (for example), I can connect to the host work PC just fine.

When I am connected with Netzero dial up, and the tcp/ip doesn't start with 150.75.xx.xx, I can't connect to the host.


Does this have something to do with firewall? I am not sure if there is one at work. What can I do to get it to work with Netzero dial up connection?

thanks.

 

[lowtech1]

It could be that your work PC at school is behind a router. The best thing is contact the school administrator for assistant.

The reason that you can access the school PC within the school is that there is no restriction in the LAN & you could also have a private address internally. Also there could be a filter rule that block the PCanywhere port.

Run winipcfg, ipconfig or netstat locally to find out your school PC IP.

Normally you will find 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x IPs are use for a private network. If this is the case, you then need to ask the admin to open the appropriate ports & forward it to your school workstation IP. In order to connect from home to school workstation, you will need to set the school router IP as the connection point & fill in the appropriate ports that the admin have given to you.

In some case the school may use Transparent Proxy ARP, which served real IPs to all the server & workstation. You will need to ask the school admin to open the appropriate ports on the router & allow it through the filter & Route/Peer it to your school workstation IP.

 

[abovewood]

thanks for the help.

I think all computers have real IP numbers at work. I will try to get more informatiton and play around with it.