Does anyone have this up and running?

Here's my scenerio: I have a cable modem connected to a Netgear wireless router. Behind the router is 1 desktop PC (wireless) in the house and a wireless bridge out in my "shed". In the shed the wirelss bridge is connected to a 10/100 Tp-Link 8 port hub switch to which are connected a desktop, 4 basket crunchers and often two laptops. Everything behind the cable modem has static IP addresses except the laptops which pick up a DHCP IP from a very limited range (3 available). All of these have have BOINC v4.26 with a remotehost.cfg file that defines 3 hostnames (the desktop in the shed, the desktop in the house and my work laptop). What I'd like to do is to be able to do the File-Select computer option of the BOINC manager on my work laptop from work (company lan) to control BOINC on the PCs at home.

My son tells me I need to set up port triggering or port forwarding for each computer that I want remote access to. Can anyone guide me thru this process?

How do I identify the laptop in remotehost.cfg when it's on the company lan... can it still be just the hostname?

Thanx, Skip

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Hope someone has an answer for this....I don't. My view is that boinc manager is not capable of this but using BoincView it may be possible. Anyone with more experience using BoincView over the www??

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This looks messy but not impossible. I can tell you that I remote to my girlfriends computer over the Internet to manage her BOINC installation. I opened the port on her router to map directly to her computer. The remotehosts file also contains my WAN IP address.

For you to do this with a group of computer would be difficult but not impossible. Depending on the router it may be impossible but if you can set the router to forward a local port to a different wan port you’re in business.

This may not work. It doesn’t for my router.

By the way, you should go check out BOINC View if you already have not. I use it for my home computers without a problem but at my school where I currently manage 30 computers it is glitch and uses indecent amounts of CPU time and bandwidth.

The only way right now, and fastest way, would be to use a remote desktop software such as VNC and remote into a local computer configured to pass though the router and then run the BOINC manager or BOINC View locally.

Whatever you decide to do keep us informed. It is an interesting problem.





BOINC View: http://boincview.amanheis.de/
VNC: http://www.realvnc.com/download.html

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> This looks messy but not impossible. I can tell you that I remote to my
> girlfriends computer over the Internet to manage her BOINC installation. I
> opened the port on her router to map directly to her computer. The
> remotehosts file also contains my WAN IP address.
>
> For you to do this with a group of computer would be difficult but not
> impossible. Depending on the router it may be impossible but if you can set
> the router to forward a local port to a different wan port you’re in
> business.
>
> This may not work. It doesn’t for my router.
>
> By the way, you should go check out BOINC View if you already have not. I use
> it for my home computers without a problem but at my school where I currently
> manage 30 computers it is glitch and uses indecent amounts of CPU time and
> bandwidth.
>
> The only way right now, and fastest way, would be to use a remote desktop
> software such as VNC and remote into a local computer configured to pass
> though the router and then run the BOINC manager or BOINC View locally.
>
> Whatever you decide to do keep us informed. It is an interesting problem.
>
>
>
>
>
> BOINC View: http://boincview.amanheis.de/
> VNC: http://www.realvnc.com/download.html
>
>

For Boincview, just set it to update once every minute...rather than the default of every 10 seconds. Works great for me.

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> For you to do this with a group of computer would be difficult but not
> impossible. Depending on the router it may be impossible but if you can set
> the router to forward a local port to a different wan port you’re in
> business.

Actually, the problem isn't BOINC as much as the router.

The typical inexpensive home router only has one WAN address, so that basically lets you expose one internal machine. If your router/firewall handles multiple IP addresses (mine does) then it's much easier. Then again, my router/firewall isn't a "home" router/firewall.

You'll also need more than one address from your provider and most DSL/Cable providers don't want to do that.

One approach that should work is to expose one computer enough to run some sort of VPN. You then use the VPN to extend your home network to some machine outside -- you use the one public IP to connect to your LAN, and all of the machines on your LAN are then "local."

OpenVPN has real possibilities.

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