VNC and NAT and firewall

Hi,

Is there any magick that can enable me to access,through VNC or similar, a
Windows machine which is on a private network (NAT) and behind a couple of
firewalls from a Linux machine which also is NATed and behind a firewall?

What I'm thinking is that IMs like ICQ, AIM etc does something like this
because you go through a 3rd server. Is there any solution that would
enable this for VNC? Any other magick that could fix this? It's not
possible to open ports on the firewall as that would be against company
policy.

Regards,
Ole Jacob

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You could do this using SSH tunnels and opening up port 22 forwarded to
your *Nix box.

Check out comp.security.ssh

Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any magick that can enable me to access,through VNC or similar, a
> Windows machine which is on a private network (NAT) and behind a couple of
> firewalls from a Linux machine which also is NATed and behind a firewall?
>
> What I'm thinking is that IMs like ICQ, AIM etc does something like this
> because you go through a 3rd server. Is there any solution that would
> enable this for VNC? Any other magick that could fix this? It's not
> possible to open ports on the firewall as that would be against company
> policy.
>
> Regards,
> Ole Jacob
>

Ole Jacob Taraldset ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
: Hi,

: Is there any magick that can enable me to access,through VNC or similar, a
: Windows machine which is on a private network (NAT) and behind a couple of
: firewalls from a Linux machine which also is NATed and behind a firewall?

: What I'm thinking is that IMs like ICQ, AIM etc does something like this
: because you go through a 3rd server. Is there any solution that would
: enable this for VNC? Any other magick that could fix this? It's not
: possible to open ports on the firewall as that would be against company
: policy.

: Regards,
: Ole Jacob

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: ICQ 5366306 | Jabber (E-Mail Removed) | AIM ojtaraldset
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If your firewall allows ssh, you can do port forwarding via ssh. Take
a look at VNC over ssh.

Ole Jacob Taraldset <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
news:cgl09l$2nm4$(E-Mail Removed):
> Is there any magick that can enable me to access,through VNC or
> similar, a Windows machine which is on a private network (NAT) and
> behind a couple of firewalls from a Linux machine which also is NATed
> and behind a firewall?

Try this : http://chownat.lucidx.com/

I didn't test it, but I've just seen it on Freshmeat.

Regards