Help connecting to Home PC

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DjStyles

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Can someone please help me connect remotely to my Home PC from the Office. I have tried using RealVNC & it works great on a LAN situation, but I can't seem to connect via the internet. I assume that this has something to do with the fact that my ADSL uses Dynamic IP. Is there a way of doing this?
If anyone know how to do this it would be most appreciated.
 
Use Dyndns, register a domain name, run software on your pc to update Dyndns everytime your IP changes, access your pc thru the Dyndns name (as in djstyles.homeip.net or whatever one you picked) . Ensure that you set up your firewall (if you have one) to allow access on those specific ports.
 
Dynamic IP has very little to do with the problem.
If you know your machine's IP address, you can connect to it.
There are programs that will email you the new IP address when it changes [to a google.com email account for instance...]

You have to allow incomming requests form the internet to enter your home network and end up at the right machine using only specific ports as the rule.

That's the tricky part. So in order to help you set this up, we need to know what kind of ADSL configuration u're running.

A - USB/Ethernet ADSL Modem directly plugged into Computer you want to conntect to.
B - ADSL Multi-Port Router -> Which then has the computer you want to connect to plugged into one of the ports on the router.
C - Some other wierd configuration ? Please explain it.
 
Thanks for the quick response guy's. I am running a netgear 834GTUK 4 port wireless router. I have setup a djstyles.no-ip.com account which updates my ip address, but still I cant get it to work. I have opened the ports on the router to accept the connection, but still nothing.
 
So - the ports are opened to FORWARD to the destination computer right ?

i.e. The router has been configured to forward inbound traffic on port(s) x, y , z and h on TCPIP and UDP to ip address 192.168.0.n or whatever, and to do the reverse - accept outgoing traffic on ports x, y, z, and h on TCPIP and UDP from ip address 192.168.0.n or whatever.

- well then the only thing left is the firewall running on the destination computer. Disable it completely then and see if it works.

- Side :: I have heard of others that cannot get it to work on a Wireless connection. Something about Windowzez built-in wireless security. But it's an unconfirmed rumour.
 
Styles, try to find out the current allocated IP on the home computer and see if You can ping it. If You can then go over the whole dyndns setup again
 
btw whats a free client to do ip-updates on a windows machine or how do you set it up with the d-link router ?
 
krycor said:
btw whats a free client to do ip-updates on a windows machine or how do you set it up with the d-link router ?
Click to expand...

D-link routers have a client built in - check your firmware

....oh and don't derail the thread now.....:)
 
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