Remote Desktop

[Thraxen]

How would I go about accessing computers on a LAN (behind a modem and router) using something similar to remote desktop or VNC? For example, assuming I know the external IP, how would I direct an incoming RD connection to a PC with a local IP behind a router?

 

[cpals]

If your router supports port forwarding, this would be how.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Forward the port in your router. You can always use something like Logmein that transverses NAT so you don't ahve to worry about port forwarding.

 

[JackMDS]

For VNC, http://www.ezlan.net/vnc.html

Windows RDT, http://technet.microsoft.com/e.../library/bb457106.aspx

 

[Griffinhart]

I'd be a bit uncomfortable just doing basic port forwarding to a RDP/VNC connection.

I'd consider something like logmein first. If you have the hardware/software setting up a VPN on your home network or even setting up a windows home server to use the remote access abilities there.

I use the latter myself.

 

[JackMDS]

VNC can do AES encryption, RDT uses VPN.

What you think the Logmein client is doing?

If a local port is opened and expects encrypted traffic there is No difference.

Actually all of these services (like Logmein) are more dangerous since your traffic is controlled by their server and they want they can have "good time" with your code.

In addition since everybody knows about the existence of these services, it is easier to target their traffic for hacking, rather than an obscure user that privately moves some random traffic through the Internet.

Their only advantage of the services is that every ignorant can use them while VNC and RDT need a little mental effort to learn, and you have to keep a track of your External IP rather than simply log to logmein.com

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

All their servers do is create the connection. Once you have made the connection, then it is Peer to Peer from the comuter to your computer with AES encryption (256-bit, i think).

 

[Tommouse]

I use a free dynamic DNS service (no-ip.com) to keep track of my external IP. I then tunnel RDP over SSH. It was pretty easy to do on my smoothwall. I don't have any links handy, but it wasn't too hard to find some decent instructions when I first did it.

 

[Jamsan]

I tunnel VNC over SSH as well.. If all you have is Windows to work with, use the following guide: http://theillustratednetwork.m.../RemoteDesktopSSH.html

It shows how to setup copssh to create the SSH tunnel, and connectng to RDP, but you can easily change port numbers to work with VNC.

 

[Tsaico]

VNC in SSH tunnel worked well for me. Then I found logmein.com and just started using their free remote control utility. No configuration, just install, add password, that's it.

 

[classy]

A couple of guys here mentioned smoothwall, which I also use. If you want to log in from work, if you know your work place's ip or block of ips, you can set your smoothwall to only allow a connection from those ips. I logged into my house from my job, since I knew the external ips, I set my smoothwall to accept only a connection from those ips.

 

[Tbirdkid]

The company I work for uses either vpn tunneling, or logmein. Thats what I live off of. Mostly though, if its inside a server environment, the I use dameware.

 

[Beev]

Neat, I came to this forum to make a thread very similar to this.

I'm very ignorant on remote desktop'ing, if I set up VNC, would I need any other permissions to access my home computer from work? I believe as it is now we are only allowed to remote in to computers on our company (which spans the entire USA) network.

 

[Tbirdkid]

install logmein, and remote control away. you just need it on the desktop at home. you will log into logmein.com to get to your computer and thats it.