Desktop sharing in Hoary...?

[Eric Dunbar]

On 4/9/05, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I need to do some remote development work with a colleage elsewhere in
> the UK. I want him to be able to see at the very least my development
> environment (probably emacs) and at best my desktop. I also want to talk
> to him at the same time using Skype although I'd rather use a "free"
> solution. I'm also on a LAN (DHCP ip address ranges in 192.168.*.*)
> behind a firewall and on 512 ADSL.
> 
> We'll both be using Hoary for this.
> 
> The VoIP skype solution is a no-brainer. Its the "remote desktop" that
> I'm puzzled by. VNC could be the right choice but how does my mate know
> which IP address to point to with his client? Secondly, what VNC screen
> do I have to set in the VNC server in order for him to see my "real"
> desktop?

If you're in an institutional environment you may have to talk to your
network admin to help you establish the VNC connection.

If you're on you're own LAN (with a unique IP) you may have to
configure your router to forward traffic for the appropriate port(s)
to your computer (you'll have to figure out what port(s) VNC uses).

In that case you'll need to assign a fixed IP address to the desktop
machine you'd like to share with VNC (using the DHCP server you can
assign a fixed IP to a specific MAC address (MAC = a hexadecimal
address referring to the ethernet/wirless port)). Then you'll tell the
router to forward traffic for the port(s) relating to VNC to that
specific computer (and, whatever other services you'd like to be able
to access directly from the larger internet).

Eric.