Last night I tried setting up Moveable Type & Gallery on my brother's force9 webspace, which comes free with his broadband account. Access to the ISP's CGI servers is locked down though, preventing FTP, ssh and telnet access from remote computers that are not connected to their ISP network.
So this evening we are going to try to set up his Powerbook with a VNC server so that I can connect to his machine, view his desktop and control it remotely via a VNC client. I've downloaded VNCThing and Share My Desktop, tested it on our home network with my iBook and dad's G4 PowerMac and it works a treat. The only complication might come when Mark has to set up his router to port forward the VNC port to his machine. However, according to Scooter Boi it might not be too hard:
Scoot: okay, ports 5800 and 5900 need to be forwarded
Jonah: cool, cheers matey!
Scoot: that is the "base" port numbers for vnc
Scoot: 5800 is the authentication port, and 5900 actually does the business
Jonah: on the server software we have, you can specify a port eg 5901
Jonah: so do you have to forward that port and (port-1000) too?
Scoot: vnc doesn't mind what it works on, but you need the other port to go with it
Scoot: yep -1000 is the figure!
Then while he is doing his huge ironing pile I can get on with setting up his website, allowing him to upload photos and blogs from his New Zealand holiday with Sarah. :)
Posted by jonah at September 11, 2003 05:06 PM | TrackBack