Port Forwarding

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Sounds good, thanks - we will give it a try later.





On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my son to access my home computer from school.  
> > I'm using a Linksys router and while he can ping the cable modem 
> > the port forwarding doesn't seem to be working.
> > 
> > I've look at the instructions and the only thing I can see that I 
> > may not be doing right is the Ext. Port Range.  What range should 
> > I be putting in?  I am not seting up a Web Server (port 80) or an 
> > FTP server (port 21) I just want to give him access to my 
> > computer so he can get files from my machine to his (not 
> > necessarly FTP).  We are using RealVNC to connect between the two 
> > machines.
> 
> I'd set up sshd on your machine and give it a fixed IP in your
> 192.168.0.x range (don't get a DHCP from the router).  Then set up
> port forwarding from the WAN's port 22 to port 22 on your private
> IP address.
> 
> If you do that and you know your cable modem's IP, your son can ssh to
> your box for text-based sessions and he can sftp the files securely.
> 
> If he wants a desktop enviroment, log in as him locally, then run "Xvnc"
> to set up a second desktop.  Then, remotely, he can:
> 
> 	vncviewer -via cable-modem-address cable-modem-address:1
> 
> to run VNC to display his desktop via the secured ssh tunnel.
> 
> That's what I have set up.  Works fine, lasts a long time.
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