[CoLoCo] Remote Access

[David L. Willson]

On Fri, 09 May 2008 11:57:59 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:33 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Mike (sorry for your thumbs). I understand how NAT works. What
> > I don't understand is why using dyndns coupled with ssh and port
> > forwarding on the router won't won't. I do exactly this to connect my
> > box at home. So I must not have a clear picture of the problem.
> 
> I don't own admin rights on the target NAT router.  I can not add DDNS
> to the remote side, or forward ports.  I never tried DDNS or NOIP on my
> home satellite... would be an interesting experiment if I did not need
> this to be bullet proof.
> 
> I set up Hamachi at home last night, and it appears to be running.  I
> then set up Hamachi on my office laptop, and it appears to be running.
> However, I keep getting connection failures when I try to access home.
> Hardy Heron jacked up home system on upgrade, so I had to rebuild.  I
> may not have remembered to turn on things like SSH.  But I know its
> turned on for the office laptop.  So I will test Hamachi tonight.

The vnc-listening-viewer thing I recommended needs no changes on the customer's router,
and only a simple port-forward on your router.