On 10/10/06, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Carey Fisher wrote: > > > I understand what you guys are saying and I do have a VPN equipped router > > at this location. But I need (want?) to access the machine in question > > from nearly anywhere and any machine so I can't count on being able to > > setup a tunnel from just anywhere. Maybe I should just run VNC over a > > VPN connection between here and the one other place I spend a lot of > > time. I can install a VPN router there. > > A PPTP connection is set up pretty quickly on any recent Windows PC, and > doesn't need a special router. (Most let it pass, for one connection at > least.) Whether it works or not is a different matter... Sorry for the rant, but my copy of XP at home can't handle a bad packet during the PPTP startup and just sits and sulks. A Win2k virtual machine under Vmware on Gentoo Linux however works fine... Orin. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist