Topic: PC Anywhere

[Squizzy]

I am running e-smith 5.5 and trying to connect to internal machine running pc anywhere from external internet address. I have set port forward in service manager for 5631 and 5632 and also used port open feature in service manager.
I have getting error unable to connect from external address any ideas?

[Guck Puppy]

Have you considered connecting to the server using PPTP or SSH rather than forwarding the ports? That way you don't have to open more holes...

[Klaus Eckert]

do you want to connect to a win-PC behind your SME?
why do you want to do that?

cheers klaus

[Squizzy]

The reason I have requirements for this service is remote desktop support for win  machines.
Thankyou Guck Puppy, I have considered ssh option as my best option and successfully connected to a system which is behind my sme box and have it all working ok.  This also allows connection to any system on the network...
Thanks again.

[Ed Form]

Squizzy wrote:
>
> The reason I have requirements for this service is remote
> desktop support for win  machines.
>
> Thankyou Guck Puppy, I have considered ssh option as my best
> option and successfully connected to a system which is behind
> my sme box and have it all working ok.  This also allows
> connection to any system on the network...

Any chance of some brief notes on what you did?

Ed Form

[Marc]

I am trying to configure the exact same setup you just did Squizzy.

Would you have the goodness of posting a how-to of your configuration? I would be gratefull, and am sure other people would be interested.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Marc

[Squizzy]

Hi mark,
the following url was instructions i used for connection process. Of course I am a newbie to this kind of stuff and with a little messing around had successfull connections.
http://www.f-secure.com/support/technical/ssh/support-issue-2002051503.shtml

[jeroen]

You could of course also vpn into the server (wich makes you a local user) and then fire up PCAnywhere. This way you are using a secure connection, and don't have the hassle of forwarding ports.