[OT] Re: vnc access

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

Paul Kaplan a écrit :
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 8:10:49 am S. William Schulz wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 07:16 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
>>> I don't believe the problem is with my router.  I am forwarding ports
>>> 5800 and 5900 to my target machine at home.  The problem is that when I'm
>>> behind a corporate firewall at work, I can't contact home, and I have no
>>> admin access to the corp firewall.
>> Can you ssh out from work to your home?  Or use Hamachi?  I always use
>> VNC over a tunnel anyway, but perhaps using one or the other as an
>> encrypted tunnel would help you get out of your corporate network and
>> enable access to your home machines.
> 
> 
> The box I need to connect to is an XP SP2 box running RealVNC.  How do I set 
> up the ssh tunnel from edgy?
> Paul
> 
> 

Hi,

Let me resume what i understood :

You have a WinXP at home connected to the internet and somehow you can 
access it via realVNC from the Internet.
But at your office the firewall doesn't let you go through the VNC 
standard port . It doesn't let ping go through either.

Well, if it''s the case , the thing you are looking for is a port 
allowed by the firewall. So you can choose port 8080 or 443 (or else 
from another protocol allowed). Then, I suggest you configure VNC Server 
to use it. then you're done.

Another very nice solution I propose is that you install OpenVPN server 
on your home computer and make it listen on 443. ( 
http://openvpn.net/howto.html )
Then install openvpn and openVPN admin on the client and set it up (very 
few things to put in openvpn-admin) . ( 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn-admin/ ) and you're done.

NOTE: I think the Thread is OFF Topic : you're not asking for help 
concerning Ubuntu but you're asking us to tell you how to bypass your 
corporate firewall. I don't mind telling you but you must know that it's 
considered as piracy.