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Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

Mike Deal — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:12:45 -0000

I'm finding I can connect via WiFi but it just won't work over 3g, any ideas?

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

dancameron — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:17:11 -0000

Not unless you jailbreak it and install a VNC server.

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

Matt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:09:00 -0000

Is it possible to "drive" the iPhone from the Mac?

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

dancameron — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:09:04 -0000

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.

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

JaredB — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:04:58 -0000

Hah, that's funny - your comment wasn't there when I typed mine.

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

JaredB — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:03:52 -0000

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.

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

dancameron — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:59:10 -0000

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, :).

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

Dustin James — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:29:02 -0000

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?

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

dancameron — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:03:41 -0000

Doesn't affect AT&Ts bottom line so of course they allow it. The only apps they restrict over 3G are the VOIP apps.

Re: VNC Lite – iPhone App

JaredB — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:07:25 -0000

Does this work over 3G too, or wifi only? That's pretty cool if they allow it over 3G.