From Kathmann Labs
[edit] EchoVNC VNC Relay Project
- VNC is an open source remote control software that allows you to take mouse and keyboard control of a PC anywhere in the world from your machine. It relays what is happening on the screen to your computer, and relays the mouse and keyboard commands to the remote computer. VNC can be an awesome product on a LAN /WAN, but as soon as you start trying to use it over the internet it has certain limitations. Most of all, computers that are behind firewall or NAT devices require special configurations to allow the VNC sessions to go through. EchoVNC gets around that by running as a service on a machine somewhere out on the internet. The machine trying to control (we'll call him the admin) and the machine the admin is trying to control (we'll call this the client) both establish outbound connections through their firewall / NAT devices to that service running on the internet. EchoVNC then relays the information between the admin and the client and vice versa, taking out the need for special configurations on either firewall / NAT device (other than just having the ports open).
- EchoVNC uses groups and users to authenticate who can manage who. A single server can have many groups and users. Users can manage only other users in the same group.
[edit] Hardware
- Dell Poweredge SC440
[edit] Software
- linux
- EchoVNC
[edit] Web Links
- EchoVNC Sourceforge.net Page
- EchoVNC Users Guide
- EchoVNC Installation Guide
[edit] How-tos
- There is very little to setting up an EchoVNC server. It's as easy as setting up the .conf file with your usernames, groups, and the encrypted passwords you get from the password CLI utility. More detailed instructions to soon come.
