[clue-tech] VPN over Internet

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:48 -0600, Jon Buttjer wrote:
> 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
> 

I gave a friend my old laptop with Linux on it.  She doesn't know Linux,
but is willing to learn.  I want to be able to access her GUI to do some
support, if necessary, or show her how to do something.

She shares the WAP with a neighbor.  I don't know if the neighbor will
let me set up NAT.