VNC Question

Factual Questions
1

Currently I am using static IP’s on my home lan and have a rule on my linksys router to direct different ports to different home pc’s

For instance

port xxx1 goes to my 2003 NFR system
port xxx2 goes to my XP box
port xxx3 goes to laptopa
port xxx4 goes to laptopb
port xxx5 goes to desktopa

The downside to this is I am using 5 of my 10 port-fowards. Is there any free application I can install on the 2003 system to take all the vnc connections then direct it to the system I want to view other than running VNC on it and using that session to connect to a session on the local network

I do have the ability to run OPENVPN on the router

2

I know on ethernet we were able to use a program similar to VNC and connect from computer A to computer B to computer C. Don’t know if VNC itself will let you do that.

Side note: Now that we had done that we took bets on what would happen if we connected from C to A. Possibilites were it wouldn’t let us, eat up network bandwidth, all the computers crashing at once, or one of the systems crashing. For those interested system A crashed as soon as we connected.

-Otanx

3

delegate is a multiprotocol/generic proxy that runs on Windows, and will probably do what you want. You would probably need to set up that Windows 2003 system as your DMZ server (the target for all external connections - this may not be safe). However…

If you run OpenVPN on your router and connect via OpenVPN using a client, your client system will be able connect to any of the target systems, just by using the appropriate <ip>:<port> with no port forwards required. The client system will have a local ip address in the same range as any of the other systems.

But why do you only have 10 port forward rules on your router. I’d be pretty disappointed in a router with that sort of limitation.

Si

4

The router us a Linksys RT31P2. I have to use it as it’s my VOIP connection.

I’m going to have to look into setting up OpenVPN becuase that will help.

I will look into that delegate program

5

Too late to add this is my network setup

-----(cable modem)–>RTP1P2----->DGS-2208 (8 port 10/100/1000 switch)

Coming of the DGS-2208 is

one Windows 2003 Server
one Windows XP Pro computer
one Windows XP home server
One Xbox
One Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS router running Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) vpn

Thats the router I was going to run OpenVPN on. Currently I have it set as the machine in the DMZ that the RT31P2 is set for.