[ale] VNC how to punch thru DSL modem

[Christopher Fowler]

Why not use something like OpenVPN on her machine to tunnel back to your
network and make her a node via ProxyARP on your subnet.

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:40 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:55 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote: 
> > 
> > Which leads to the other issue: static IP address? Without it you
> > will need to have Mom on a dynamic DNS service so you can access by
> > name.
> > 
> 
> Another idea (this is what I do with my parents' computer/network):
> Use SSH to create a secure tunnel, and then either run VNC over that
> with port forwarding, or, if all that needs to be done is some
> configuration, use the shell+X11 forwarding to make things happen.  I
> prefer doing that, because then the only port open is 22 and I require
> a key to get into the computer.  That reduces the probability that
> anyone else is actually going to get into the machine.  I can then
> also work on anything on their network from that point.  It makes for
> a really decent setup.
> 
> On my parent's computer, I have an account for me, and a generic
> account ('tsupp') that they can give to people whom they trust (a
> friend of theirs is a knowledgeable Linux user), and both require keys
> to get on from outside the network:  SSH refuses any password
> attempts.
> 
>     ? Mike
> 
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