I'm borrowing free wireless from my apartment complex for a month before I move and I'd like to continue to be able to use Remote Desktop. Before, I had my own cable modem/router and simply setup port forwarding as needed. Because I'm borrowing the free wireless at the moment ... can't get access to the router to setup port forwarding.

Ideas?

7/7/2006 7:20:06 AM

Does their router have any open ports? Can you scan it for open ports? If you find one you might be able to use it by changing the port remote desktop listens on.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759/

7/7/2006 7:56:27 AM

^ most likely he is behind NAT


you can use gotomypc.com - i think they have a free trial

7/7/2006 7:57:03 AM

^
Looks nice, and looks like something that would work ... requires a credit card though

7/7/2006 8:06:48 AM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=399746
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=405798

http://www.hamachi.cc with http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
seems to be the popular choice. and i think the hamachi program means u don't have to configure the router.

7/7/2006 8:38:18 AM

^ hamachi

[Edited on July 11, 2006 at 8:51 PM. Reason : .]

7/11/2006 8:51:14 PM

have you tried to get access to the router

if you can "borrow" it, then you most likely you should be able to get to the settings using the default password

7/11/2006 9:14:39 PM

^^^ as mentioned - ultravnc and hamachi have worked great for me

7/11/2006 9:23:22 PM