Remote Desktop

[Kipton Moravec]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 12:10 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> > I am having problems with Remote Desktop running on a computer behind a
> > firewall.
> I presume you mean you want to connect to a Ubuntu (or other Linux
> distro) server from a Ubuntu (or other Linux) client using VNC -- not
> to a Microsoft Windows machine using Microsoft Remote Desktop.  If my
> assumption is incorrect, then the rest of this response probably won't
> help much.
> 
> >
> > I have opened up port 5900 and pointed it to the IP address of the
> > remote computer I want to connect to. Is it TCP or UDP?  I have tried
> > both and can not get it to work.
> VNC uses TCP
> 
> >
> > Both computers are behind NAT Firewalls. If I want to initiate a remote
> > desktop from my Home computer to the Remote Computer, I only have to
> > have port 5900 open on the firewall to the remote computer.  It does not
> > need to be opened on the firewall of the Home computer right?
> right
> 
> >
> > It does work on my home network where I do not have a firewall between
> > the computers.  I am wondering if there are other ports it uses like
> > telnet, SSH or FTP. I have those ports open and working, but the
> > firewall has them on non-standard port numbers for the Internet side.
> nope.  VNC just uses port 5900 (or 5901 if you connect to :1, 5902 for
> :2, etc...)
> 
> If you configure your home firewall to route port 5900 to port 5900 on
> the destination computer, then you should be able to point your VNC
> client (i.e. Ubuntu remote desktop connection) to the IP address of
> your firewall and it should just work.
> 
> It should even just work if you do that from within your home network,
> although that depends a little on the firewall.
> 
> Do you know the IP address of your firewall?  Not the 168.192.0.1
> address, but the address it was assigned by your ISP.
> 
> That's the address to which you should be connecting from the outside.
> 
> --wpd
> 

Thanks. That is what I thought it was doing. I have the computer setting
a dynmic dns address and I can get in using ssh. (So yes I know the
address.) But to reconfigure the ATT 2WIRE router I need to be on the
LAN side to log in and it is a web browser interface. Unfortunately the
location of the remote computer is not easy to access, so it is hard to
get in and out for testing. 

Kip


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