I am trying to get PCHelpWare to work.
On my internal LAN, using my own repeater, it works beautifully - even between 2 Vista boxes.
However, for some reason, it does not work for me on the internet. I am quite sure I know how to set up my firewall - when I forward ICMP to that computer (the repeater), I can ping it, when I disable the ICMP port forwarding, I can't ping it from the outside world. The same with RemoteDesktop - I can port forward port 3389, and Remote Desktop to this computer works over the internet, when I stop the port forwarding, it no longer works over the internet. So, I have set up port forwarding of the server and viewer ports on my firewall. I am using the default ports - 5901 and 5500. I figure if everything is encrypted, there is no sense/very little to gain by trying to hide behind a weird port number.
When I start the server, I get a little box where I can't read the error message, because the box is too small. I can't resize it. There is an error, but I can't see what it says. I tried Ctrl-C, no luck. Is there a way to make that box a little bigger, so I can see what my next troubleshooting step should be?
The viewer just sits there waiting, all by its lonely self
. When I have the repeater running, I can see from the log that the repeater sees the viewer. BTW, when using the repeater as a service, is there a way to see the log? I don't have any icon in the system tray when I run it as a service.
