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Title: PC Anywhere
Post by: Squizzy on August 27, 2003, 05:47:46 AM

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?

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Guck Puppy on August 27, 2003, 06:07:23 AM

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...

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Klaus Eckert on August 27, 2003, 06:47:09 AM

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

cheers klaus

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Squizzy on August 27, 2003, 06:56:12 AM

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.
:)

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Ed Form on August 27, 2003, 01:39:42 PM

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

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Marc on August 27, 2003, 11:01:46 PM

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

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: Squizzy on August 28, 2003, 04:59:19 AM

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

Title: Re: PC Anywhere
Post by: jeroen on August 29, 2003, 03:50:47 AM

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.