VNC alternative working through routers that does not need port forwarding?

[Gerhard Hofmann]

Hi all,

I have used VNC for quite a long time to support other people having any
kind of PC troubles.

Most annoying thing about VNC: if VNC server is behind a DSL router, you
have to setup forwarding port 5900 to an internal IP. If external IP
address is dynamic, you also have to setup DynDNS. For non-techie people
this is quite complicated stuff...

Are there any alternative desktop sharing programs that work through
routers and do not need sophisticated router configuration?

Regards
Gerhard

 

[André Gulliksen]

Most annoying thing about VNC: if VNC server is behind a DSL router,
you have to setup forwarding port 5900 to an internal IP. If external
IP address is dynamic, you also have to setup DynDNS. For non-techie
people this is quite complicated stuff...

You may want to look at Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/).

 

[Fred]

Are there any alternative desktop sharing programs that work through
routers and do not need sophisticated router configuration?

MyWebex, free for personal use so far... (www.mywebexpc.com)

 

[Sascha Wostmann]

Gerhard Hofmann :

I have used VNC for quite a long time to support other people having any
kind of PC troubles.

Most annoying thing about VNC: if VNC server is behind a DSL router, you
have to setup forwarding port 5900 to an internal IP. If external IP
address is dynamic, you also have to setup DynDNS. For non-techie people
this is quite complicated stuff...

Are there any alternative desktop sharing programs that work through
routers and do not need sophisticated router configuration?

you can use VNC in the other direction too.

on your PC you start the VNC viewer in listen mode, and the other user
initiates the connection via "add new client".

Please keep in mind that VNC connections are not encrypted and can be
sniffed easily. The better solution would be to tunnel VNC through a
SSH connection.


Viele Grüße,
Sascha

 

[derek / nul]

Most annoying thing about VNC: if VNC server is behind a DSL router,
you have to setup forwarding port 5900 to an internal IP. If external
IP address is dynamic, you also have to setup DynDNS. For non-techie
people this is quite complicated stuff...

That's what firewalls do for us, make us secure.

 

[holger]

try this
www.logmein.com

 

[derek / nul]

try this
www.logmein.com

This product requires ports to be forwarded.

 

[M.L.]

Please keep in mind that VNC connections are not encrypted and can be
sniffed easily. The better solution would be to tunnel VNC through a
SSH connection.

UltraVNC (freeware) can encrypt using a plugin (freeware) from their
web page. Far easier than configuring an SSH tunnel using Putty
(freeware).

 

[Alain]

Hi all,

I have used VNC for quite a long time to support other people having any
kind of PC troubles.

Most annoying thing about VNC: if VNC server is behind a DSL router, you
have to setup forwarding port 5900 to an internal IP. If external IP
address is dynamic, you also have to setup DynDNS. For non-techie people
this is quite complicated stuff...

Are there any alternative desktop sharing programs that work through
routers and do not need sophisticated router configuration?

Regards
Gerhard

If I remember rigth ultravnc has an option/utility to do this.