VNC without admin rights

Hi there,

I'm trying to get VNC running between my two machines at work, but I
don't
have admin rights to either box.

I've managed to get TightVNC installed and running on both boxes but I
can't get a connection going... I think I'm getting stalled by Windows
Firewall but unfortunately I don't have rights to configure that...

;-(

I've tried loads of things - all to no avail.

Advanced Port Scanner reports that ports 135 and 139 are open on the
NT4 box, and ports 135, 139 and 445 are open on the XP (SP2) box. I
know these are used for NetBIOS and SAMBA but could they be used for
VNC? If so, how?

Any suggestions how I can get this working would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance,

David

For TightVNC to work you need to open TCP ports 5500, 5800 and 5900.

If you can't get those ports open then I think you are out of luck. If you
have a genuine need to use VNC at work then contact your systems
administrator and ask that they open those ports.

"davidlandy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get VNC running between my two machines at work, but I
> don't
> have admin rights to either box.
>
> I've managed to get TightVNC installed and running on both boxes but I
> can't get a connection going... I think I'm getting stalled by Windows
> Firewall but unfortunately I don't have rights to configure that...
>
> ;-(
>
> I've tried loads of things - all to no avail.
>
> Advanced Port Scanner reports that ports 135 and 139 are open on the
> NT4 box, and ports 135, 139 and 445 are open on the XP (SP2) box. I
> know these are used for NetBIOS and SAMBA but could they be used for
> VNC? If so, how?
>
> Any suggestions how I can get this working would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>

You can configure what port VNC server uses, so that's not entirely accurate.
You could also use SSH to securely tunnel nearly any TCP application over
whatever port you want.

"Homer Jay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> For TightVNC to work you need to open TCP ports 5500, 5800 and 5900.
>
> If you can't get those ports open then I think you are out of luck. If you
> have a genuine need to use VNC at work then contact your systems administrator
> and ask that they open those ports.
>
> "davidlandy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm trying to get VNC running between my two machines at work, but I
>> don't
>> have admin rights to either box.
>>
>> I've managed to get TightVNC installed and running on both boxes but I
>> can't get a connection going... I think I'm getting stalled by Windows
>> Firewall but unfortunately I don't have rights to configure that...
>>
>> ;-(
>>
>> I've tried loads of things - all to no avail.
>>
>> Advanced Port Scanner reports that ports 135 and 139 are open on the
>> NT4 box, and ports 135, 139 and 445 are open on the XP (SP2) box. I
>> know these are used for NetBIOS and SAMBA but could they be used for
>> VNC? If so, how?
>>
>> Any suggestions how I can get this working would be very welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> David
>>
>
>

Maybe you don't have the rights to change the firewall for a reason!

davidlandy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get VNC running between my two machines at work, but I
> don't
> have admin rights to either box.
>
> I've managed to get TightVNC installed and running on both boxes but I
> can't get a connection going... I think I'm getting stalled by Windows
> Firewall but unfortunately I don't have rights to configure that...
>
> ;-(
>
> I've tried loads of things - all to no avail.
>
> Advanced Port Scanner reports that ports 135 and 139 are open on the
> NT4 box, and ports 135, 139 and 445 are open on the XP (SP2) box. I
> know these are used for NetBIOS and SAMBA but could they be used for
> VNC? If so, how?
>
> Any suggestions how I can get this working would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David

In news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com,
davidlandy <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get VNC running between my two machines at work, but I
> don't
> have admin rights to either box.
>
> I've managed to get TightVNC installed and running on both boxes but I
> can't get a connection going... I think I'm getting stalled by Windows
> Firewall but unfortunately I don't have rights to configure that...
>
> ;-(
>
> I've tried loads of things - all to no avail.
>
> Advanced Port Scanner reports that ports 135 and 139 are open on the
> NT4 box, and ports 135, 139 and 445 are open on the XP (SP2) box. I
> know these are used for NetBIOS and SAMBA but could they be used for
> VNC? If so, how?
>
> Any suggestions how I can get this working would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David

Have you talked to your IT staff about this? If you don't have admin rights
on the box, I imagine it's because your IT staff don't want you making
system changes....

Thanks to everyone for the responses.

Mike, could you give me some pointers to samples/tutorials/resources of
how to use ssh to do the tunnelling? I read a little about it on the
net and but couldn't easily understand how to tell ssh to hook computer
a up to computer b - and then how to tell VNC to use ssh. if indeed you
have to tell it anything!

Thanks in advance.

David

One of the best sites I've read is this one:
http://www.chinese-watercolor.com/LR...gwin-sshd.html

"davidlandy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks to everyone for the responses.
>
> Mike, could you give me some pointers to samples/tutorials/resources of
> how to use ssh to do the tunnelling? I read a little about it on the
> net and but couldn't easily understand how to tell ssh to hook computer
> a up to computer b - and then how to tell VNC to use ssh. if indeed you
> have to tell it anything!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> David
>