www.logmein.com will work and you wont need to mess about with dynamic ip's and NAT. CR -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Bruce Kingsbury Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 9:44 p.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Access brothers computer? 2009/11/10 Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>:
2009/11/10 <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>:
Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be...
I haven't tested properly, but ...
Install tightvnc ( http://www.tightvnc.com/ ) on the Windows box, vinagre on the Ubuntu box and Bob's your uncle! It seems to work quite well.
that's the easy part. Finding your way around NAT and dynamic IP addresses makes things quite a lot harder. I'm using http://www.dyndns.com/ to find my home network when I'm out, and you'll find useful advice and tools for port forwarding on http://portforward.com/ -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- This message was scanned by the Turnstone managed spam filter and is believed to be clean.