Answering a really old thread I started ages ago. I found this in Linux User magazine yesterday. http://www.teamviewer.com/ A colleague mentioned that he already uses it on Windows and that it works well. I plan to give it a go later this week. It has both 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu clients. Seems like it could be very useful for helping friends and family and especially those that are new to linux. I'll let you know how I get on. Cheers, Chris On 30 September 2008 22:56, cmoman <cmoman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Is there a tool in ubuntu that a user can start that reports the real world ip address and configures a home router to open a port to allow remote administration?
I have a friend or two for whom it would nice to get them to start a program, report to me the details via MSN or Skype or telephone etc and allow me to log in and fix or make a configuration change to their machine. I know how to set things up using ssh etc but that relies on some initial configuration at the their end. KDE has a nice VNC invite function but it won't do the router config part.
It appears the likes of KTorrent and Azuereus have the ability to do some to the router via UPnP to open ports up on the router dynamically so I am guessing all this is possible.
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