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Re: [PLUG] Remote Control of Windows Vista
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From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Casey Bralla
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 5:58 AM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: [PLUG] Remote Control of Windows Vista
My 81 year old dad's computer died, so he bought a new computer with Windows
Vista. The only thing that has kept me sane as he has repeatedly called me
for help over the last few years had been my ability to take remote control
of his old WinXP laptop. I had used the free WinVNC server on his
computer,
and KDE's remote desktop on mine.
Apparently, WinVNC does not support Vista, so I had him load the newest
version of UltraVNC (www.uvnc.com) which does. Unfortunately, as I walked
him through the installation (and I did a parallel installation on my WinXP
system running in a vbox), we found that I could not make contact with his
computer, even though it UVNC appeared to be running properly. My attempt
to contact his computer eventually timed out.
I'm fairly certain that I have his correct IP address, and that our ISPs are
not blocking the port (at least, they didn't used to block them as of a few
months ago).
I suspect the Vista firewall is blocking the connection, but I've never used
Vista and so can't walk him through opening up the firewall (if that is the
problem).
Anybody fought this problem with Vista? How can I use open source tools to
take remote control of a Vista computer?
First, are you sure you have his right ip? The free dynamic dns client from
either noip(must have your own domain) or tzo(free domain names I think),
dyndns(free domains up to 5 hosts per account) would be a big help as I use
them for many of my clients.
What kind of connection? Verizon dsl or Comcast? Verizon blocks incoming
traffic so you will need to fix that in the Westell modem.
Vista should have just asked him whether or not he wanted to open a port
from the server. It's my guess that the server is not running or windows
remote desktop might be using the same ports.
You would normally go into the security center via the control panel and
from him giving you the tab description you should be able to figure it out
from there.
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