[NCLUG] rdp, vnc through nat

[Matt Rosing]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to operate my father-in-law's or parent's 
machine remotely from my machine so I can do some stuff for them. To try 
this out, so far I put gnome-rdp on my machine and I put a vnc server on 
a windows machine and now I can control my windows machine, which is on 
the same local network as my linux machine. What I don't understand is 
how to run this through the fire walls. The ports are no problem but the 
NAT is. I can modify my fire wall to send everything related to rdp to 
my linux machine but I can't get to the firewall at my parent's house. I 
just can't ask them to touch anything and I can't drive there to set 
this up. So, I want the server (the windows machine) to initiate things 
and the client (my linux machine) to respond. Is this doable? Or is 
there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Matt