[NCLUG] rdp, vnc through nat

[Ben West]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Matt Rosing <rosing at peakfive.com> wrote:

> 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
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you want rinetd installed on your linux machine that's r-i-n-e-t-d in case
you guessed I misspelled the server name

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Benjamin West