Topic: Port Forwarding??

[Jeremy]

I am trying to connect to a machine in my network using pcanywhere. I have opened the appropriate ports on the sme server but I still can't get in. Am I supposed to set the pcanywere client that is outside of my network to point to the SME server or the workstation. If not how does anything outside the network know whats in here. Doesn't the firewall make it look like on ip address to the outside world.

[Luke Drumm]

If you're relying on port forwarding to connect then you'll need to set the client to point towards the server. (On the assumption that the servers port forwarding points to the internal 'target' machine).

If you want a more flexible setup (eg. connect to other internal machines), then a VPN type solution may be a better bet.

[Frank]

Hi,

Also you can use your SSH client to do a port forward.

I use the client Putty. Look under tunnels. it works fine for me with VNC so i think it must work with PCanywhere.

Frank.