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How to Setup a realVPC on my network

I am using v5 at home. My son wants me to setup what he called a "realVPC" to his home computer so he can access his computer from anywhere else, such as the university he attends. How do I do this? [:S]

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0 BarryG over 20 years ago

Find out what ports the application uses, and use DNAT to forward them to the PC, and put packetfilter rules to allow the traffic.

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0 ozzier over 20 years ago in reply to BarryG

Just want to make sure I explained correctly what I need to do. My son tells me that realVPC is a program running on his home desktop. I do not know what this program does but it must at the very least let him access his computer remotely.
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0 BarryG over 20 years ago in reply to ozzier

Understood.
My advice should be appropriate.

Read the ASL manual and Knoledgebase/FAQ if you haven't already.

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0 Keith_M over 20 years ago in reply to ozzier

Realvnc - www.realvnc.com
default port is 5900. Works great
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0 ozzier over 20 years ago in reply to Keith_M

Thanks--obviously I misspelled the name. RealVNC

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Realvnc - www.realvnc.com
default port is 5900. Works great

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0 dayne1432 over 20 years ago in reply to BarryG

Just to let you know that vnc is plain text. In other words man in the middle attacks can occur and probably will. You can setup VNC to tunnel through an ssh server. There are a few tutorials out there. If I found one I will post it up.
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0 dayne1432 over 20 years ago in reply to dayne1432

ah just found one:
http://www.vandyke.com/solutions/port_forwarding/vnc_screen.html
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0 VelvetFog over 20 years ago in reply to ozzier

Rather than opening up a port through the ASL firewall for external VNC remote desktop access, you should consider running a VPN connection, using either the PPTP or L2TP capabilities that are built into both ASL and Microsoft Windows (Win2K/XP). Opening a VPN connection first, and then running VNC, gives you a much more secure setup.

It is also much easier to configure, since no added masq rules or packet filters are required on your ASL box.
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