30 Sep
2008
30 Sep
'08
9:37 p.m.
More thoughts; http://portforward.com/ has information for forwarding ports on most routers. It also happens to tell you your real-world IP on the first page. Also it might be easier if you send them a script that does an ssh to your own machine and tunnels back to whatever port vnc runs on, which avoids the forwarding problem completely. I got verne to do this; a simple alias and an unlocked private key for authentication so he only has to type one command and I can ssh back into his machine. check the man page for ssh. To tunnel vnc you won't need to install anything new either.