I have a Netgear router and have a route to manage, with Screen Sharing,
access one of the Macs on the network. This also applies to SFTP so I can
collect files remotely.
What I’d really like to do is to be able to manage more than one internal
device. Either Screen Sharing or SFTP etc.
On a Netgear router you can set a route on port 5900 [the nominated VNC
port] to a specified internal IP address, but only one route.
Is there a way I can setup up a route to more than one Mac?
Currently I’m using a Dynamic DNS service to track any change on my
Broadband IP address, I’m with ntl/Virgin so I’ve not had a not change for
about four years, but ADSL connections change frequently. This means I can
have a publicly available domain [such as fredflintstone.dyndns.org or peter.is-a-stonemason.com etc] to link to my network.
Any ideas??
Best wishes Peter
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Peter Tucker, Oxford UK email@hidden
If you only have one external IP address, then you will have to use a
non-standard port to reach the 2nd through nth Mac. The way you would
do this is to set up port 5900 to map to 192.168.1.130:5900, then set
port 5901 to map to 192.168.1.131:5900, and so on. Your router should
be able to work out the return route correctly. You would then need
to specify the non-standard port in your VNC software when trying to
connect to one of the other machines. The client Macs would not need
to be configured any differently on the VNC server side.
Walter
On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Peter Tucker wrote:
Is there a way I can setup up a route to more than one Mac?
on 31/03/2008 19:30, Walter Lee Davis at email@hidden wrote:
If you only have one external IP address, then you will have to use a
non-standard port to reach the 2nd through nth Mac. The way you would
do this is to set up port 5900 to map to 192.168.1.130:5900, then set
port 5901 to map to 192.168.1.131:5900, and so on. Your router should
be able to work out the return route correctly. You would then need
to specify the non-standard port in your VNC software when trying to
connect to one of the other machines. The client Macs would not need
to be configured any differently on the VNC server side.
Cheers, I’d thought of that work around, but the router will not allow
adding ports to the end of the Firewall rules.
Might it work with [a more flexible] VPN solution?
Best wishes Peter
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Peter Tucker, Oxford UK email@hidden
Or, if you can find an older Linksys WRT54GL (v4 or lower) then that
would be the easiest.
Walter
On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Peter Tucker wrote:
on 31/03/2008 19:30, Walter Lee Davis at email@hidden wrote:
If you only have one external IP address, then you will have to use a
non-standard port to reach the 2nd through nth Mac. The way you would
do this is to set up port 5900 to map to 192.168.1.130:5900, then set
port 5901 to map to 192.168.1.131:5900, and so on. Your router should
be able to work out the return route correctly. You would then need
to specify the non-standard port in your VNC software when trying to
connect to one of the other machines. The client Macs would not need
to be configured any differently on the VNC server side.
Cheers, I’d thought of that work around, but the router will not allow
adding ports to the end of the Firewall rules.
Might it work with [a more flexible] VPN solution?
Best wishes Peter
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Peter Tucker, Oxford UK email@hidden
(Sorry, the whole conversation appears to be missing from the thread)
Genuine Question:
The actual port would carry through, would it not? If a ping hit the WAN side of the firewall at: 52.123.123.123:5901 and a redirect rule pointed that to LAN: 192.168.1.101, would not that be the equivalent of: 192.168.1.101:5901? If so, then the VNC could then be set to listen on a different port number.
That is a good point. Yes, if you could somehow configure your VNC
server on that machine to listen on a non-standard port, then it
would work as it should.
Walter
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Weaver wrote:
(Sorry, the whole conversation appears to be missing from the thread)
Genuine Question:
The actual port would carry through, would it not? If a ping hit
the WAN side of the firewall at: 52.123.123.123:5901 and a redirect
rule pointed that to LAN: 192.168.1.101, would not that be the
equivalent of: 192.168.1.101:5901? If so, then the VNC could then
be set to listen on a different port number.