On 11/21/2011 01:40 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 November 2011 02:21, Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 November 2011 01:48, NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
...
>>> Why would you find that necessary when vino/vinegre is already included
>>> and installed in 10.10?
>>
>> AFAIK that requires router reconfiguration. Teamviewer does not:
>> requests are proxied across TV's servers. No user list information or
>> anything else is stored there, TTBOMK, not for private users, anyway.
>
> In addition TeamViewer has a Windows client, so if you are unfortunate
> enough to have to support users who have to use Windows then this
> route works for them also.
>
> That is not to say that I think TeamViewer is always the best
> solution, it is just very easy as it avoids messing about with the
> router. For those with a high level of support I use x11vnc that I
> can run remotely via ssh as I find it gives better screen quality and
> can be activated with no action on their part.
...
For Windows users I use ultravnc:
http://www.uvnc.com/
and if I need a reverse connection I use uvnc's Single Click:
http://www.uvnc.com/products/uvnc-sc.html
And it's opensource:
http://ultravnc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ultravnc/
UltraVNC is Free and distributed under the terms of theGNU General
Public License.



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On 11/20/2011 04:37 PM, NoOp wrote:


Sharing: click Allow other users to view... click Allow other users to
control...


Remote Desktop through System>preferences seems to supply your IP when
you check allow - looks like that to me, anyway...



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On 11/21/2011 03:57 PM, Jeff G. wrote:
> On 11/20/2011 04:37 PM, NoOp wrote:
>
>> Sharing: click Allow other users to view... click Allow other users to
>> control...
>
> Remote Desktop through System>preferences seems to supply your IP when
> you check allow - looks like that to me, anyway...

It does... unless of course you object to vino phoning home to servers
in Brazil to give you that IP. See:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/608701
[vino establishes a HTTP connection to check connectivity ]

I've included a workaround in my comment #10.



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On 11/20/2011 11:38 AM, Liam Proven wrote:

On 20 November 2011 17:23, Bill Stanley<bstanle@wowway.com> wrote:

I am considering my options on fixing another computer via remote control.
The computer I want to fix is in a different house in my neighborhood. We
both use Ubuntu Linux version 10.10,(GNOME Desktop) so operating system
differences shouldn't be a problem. We both use the same ISP, but obviously
we do not share the same local network (different ISP accounts).

I have been spending a lot of time going over to my neighbor to fix
relatively simple things. Winter is coming and I really don't want to leave
my house for something that is relatively minor. Some fixes take only a few
minutes. My neighbor tries to describe the problem but a verbal description
is lacking. What must be done so I can access my neighbors computer via my
computer. I would like a GUI application so it would be like I was actually
there.


What J D Lamb has suggested will indeed work, but it is moderately
technical to achieve if you don't know your way around things like
OpenSSH servers and router configuration.

It's not FOSS, but TeamViewer is free for non-commercial use& I
believe it will do what you need:
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx


I use Teamviewer all the time to fiddle with things on family members
computers. Nice since there's compatible versions for *nix, Mac and
Windows which is great and (as I prefer) KISS.

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