Firewall/Router Bypass

[pyromanci]

I have been using Ultra VNC for a few years now, but recently I've been having to change up my network. As a result Ultra VNC wont work for me any more the way I've been using it. Since under our new security policies I can no longer forward any ports from the internet to a computer that has access to the VPN.

So I've been looking at other products. One that I found that sounded nice, but is no longer maintained was echoVNC since you could set up the relay/connection server on a Linux machine (I have full rack of linux servers connected directly to the internet) and then configure the VNC server on the target computer to connect to it and be able to get on the computer without any human interaction. I then remembered that there was repeater or something for Ultra VNC, but reading through those pages. I'm not sure that it will actually work for me. I also noticed pchelpware which again I'm not sure will work either.

So i'm hoping someone might help me figure out if either of those 2 will work for me.

[Bonji]

I'm thinking the repeater functionality is what you want. I've not used it myself, but I'm familiar with the basics.

You have a computer host the repeater service. This can be internal to your organization (which means you have to forward an outside IP to an internal one, but only this repeater service), or you can host it externally on a cloud VPS or server (or anywhere reachable via internet).

The computer you want to control connects to the repeater and awaits a Viewer to connect.

The computer you run the viewer on connects to the repeater and the repeater then bridges the two together.


If I erred in my explanation anywhere, someone feel free to clarify, but I believe this is pretty accurate.

[pyromanci]

The only problem I see with the repeater is it a windows Application.

I have no windows based computer/server publicly published to the internet.