Does this work over 3G too, or wifi only? That's pretty cool if they allow it over 3G.
dancameron
· 1 year ago
Doesn't affect AT&Ts bottom line so of course they allow it. The only apps they restrict over 3G are the VOIP apps.
Dustin James
· 1 year ago
I am a college student and am wanting to set this up via DNS so that I can be anywhere and check things on my iMac.
The problem is that I do not know how to do this... and I live on campus in the dorms. Do you think it is possible? How would I figure out the DNS to put into the field?
dancameron
· 1 year ago
Dustin: It's going to be very hard if not impossible. The problem you're going to run into is port forwarding VNC to your desktop. If your college runs a NAT, which I'd assume they do then you're going to have to talk to some network guy that will probably laugh and turn away. If you have a dedicated IP then you need to open the VNC port on your router, then use port forwarding to the computer/desktop. Simply put: VNC connects through a port, imagine your school network having a wall before it, you'll need to connect the VNC port to your computer, the only way to do that is through the network admin who owns the wall.
Hope that helps, if you don't understand what I'm saying...good luck, :).
JaredB
· 1 year ago
Hah, that's funny - your comment wasn't there when I typed mine.
dancameron
· 1 year ago
Jared: comment: it's probably because I comment through replying to e-mail now and it takes just a little longer to post. It's the best feature of Disqus - for me.
JaredB
· 1 year ago
It should work as long as you have a publicly addressable IP, and that would depend on how the dorm network is set up.
If it's a NAT setup where you have an internal IP address, then you'd need to somehow forward that traffic into your private IP. Since you probably wouldn't have access to the dorm network configuration, that would probably mean setting up forwarding / tunneling through some other machine with a public IP address.
There may also be services that would do this for you, similar to GoToMyPC, but allowing you to use a VNC client to access them. I don't know of any, though.
Matt
· 1 year ago
Is it possible to "drive" the iPhone from the Mac?
dancameron
· 1 year ago
Not unless you jailbreak it and install a VNC server.
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The problem is that I do not know how to do this... and I live on campus in the dorms. Do you think it is possible? How would I figure out the DNS to put into the field?
going to run into is port forwarding VNC to your desktop. If your college
runs a NAT, which I'd assume they do then you're going to have to talk to
some network guy that will probably laugh and turn away.
If you have a dedicated IP then you need to open the VNC port on your
router, then use port forwarding to the computer/desktop. Simply put: VNC
connects through a port, imagine your school network having a wall before
it, you'll need to connect the VNC port to your computer, the only way to do
that is through the network admin who owns the wall.
Hope that helps, if you don't understand what I'm saying...good luck, :).
comment: it's probably because I comment through replying to e-mail now and
it takes just a little longer to post. It's the best feature of Disqus - for
me.
If it's a NAT setup where you have an internal IP address, then you'd need to somehow forward that traffic into your private IP. Since you probably wouldn't have access to the dorm network configuration, that would probably mean setting up forwarding / tunneling through some other machine with a public IP address.
There may also be services that would do this for you, similar to GoToMyPC, but allowing you to use a VNC client to access them. I don't know of any, though.