[clue-tech] VPN over Internet

[Jon Buttjer]

Dennis,
Good morning.  It seems that you wish a combination of things, primarily:
1 - Remote access to that network/pc (a dynamic dns provider to map
global ip address to the comcast modem ie.dyndns + port forwarding
locally which you can use to get to the desired service on the
internal host).  The dyndns would let you use a name
(myfavoritesupportcustomer.dyndns.org) instead of the current DHCP
address from comcast.
2 - Gui or command access.  Once you have your connection up, you can
choose which way to go here. I have used VNC through SSH for linux,
and it works.  For Windows, I have used www.logmein.com, remote
desktop (RDP), citrix in the past, etc. and they each work.

So a next questions might be:
* Is your remote host running linux or windows
* are you going to need services between the remote host and your
local, control host (ie. printing, file sharing, etc.).

HTH,
jontheisguy


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM,  <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Irons" <michael at beckonsmeby.com>
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2009 11:41:06 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] VPN over Internet
>
>> I'm just looking for options.  Which ones work well, etc.
>>
>> I don't know if logmein will run on Linux.  In the past I've only used
>> it to access a Windows machine.
>>
>> Now that I think of it, maybe I must use something like logmein, because
>> the other computer is on a friend's computer on Comcast.  Any IP address
>> they give me would probably be unreachable from my end.
>
>
> If you mean you won't be able to reach the IP address due to it being
> dynamic, you can try something like
> no-ip.com, dyndns, etc (there are many around). They allow you to keep
> track of your IP address through client that updates the
> dns record. There are several linux clients available.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
>
> The problem, unless I am wrong, is that although I can get the IP address of
> the other computer, is that it is only for that computer and network.  But
> Comcast assigns an IP address to the broadband modem, and that modem has a
> DHCP server that assigns the computer its address.  I suppose I can change
> DHCP settings so the computer always has the same address, but that is just
> a local address, not one I can access directly.  It seems to me that it is
> necessary to use a third party, like logmein, that is already talking to
> that PC because it is running a program to talk to logmein.  Without that
> program and without logmein, I cannot find that computer.
>
> It's not insurmountable.  It's just something I realized when I was thinking
> about how to set this up.  I just need to choose which company to use.
>
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