need some help with DHCP and my router

[kermalou]

ok, so in my office we have 8 computers on the network connected via two swtiches to a linksys roter.
the router is acting as the dhcp server handing out licenses 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.150

now i want to set up ultravnc on the computers and dont feel like getting the addresses from a third party app. what would happen if i set two of the computer to adresses like 192.168.1.3? (and set the gateways and the dns servers?)

 

[yoda291]

if you're going from one machine behind the linksys to another, you're fine. Just make sure you keep the gateways, subnet masks, and dns entries the same between both computers and the IPs don't conflict. so one machine would have 192.168.1.5/255.255.255.0 and the other would have 192.168.1.6/255.255.255.0 for ip addresses, then you can run vnc between one and the other without issue. If you want to run vnc over the internet, that's a different story, you have to configure a virtual server to map the external port to whichever workstation is running vnc.

 

[kermalou]

thanks for your help.

what would you recommend? i currently use gotomypc and love it but if i can do it for free, why not?

 

[yoda291]

ultravnc is free and it works.

If you have a unix machine handy on the network, I like using freeNX a lot. it can act as kind of a remote connection gateway so that by opening up one port to it (22), you can remote into any machine on your 192 network using a bunch of different protocols and then it gets piped out compressed and encrypted to boot. But, need a client program and unix. Also free

Remote desktop is good and free with XP in that, essentially, it lets you connect to the console session. RDP is slimmer than VNC.

If you happen to win the lottery and feel like dropping $$ on your remote access, citrix ICA is the cream of the crop, PITA to install tho.

 

[OmegaXero]

You can view a current DHCP list in the router that lists the IP addresses of all the computers currently on the network. It also lists the computers by name, so if you've named them logically (IE, by the person that uses the system) then you'll know which IP is associated with which computer.

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help.

Link to: Ultr@VNC - Installation, and Settings

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