Proper exact address syntax?

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
use Putty and Tunnelling -- IMO that's the easiest way of connecting to a Home Computer from a remote location and it often gets round Blocked Ports if you are trying to RDP for example to a Home computer from an Office where most of the ports other than 80 (or 8080) are blocked.


Here's an easy example of connecting to a remote MySQL server for example

Real Programmers: How To: Set Up An Ssh Tunnel With Putty -- by hackers, for hackers

Cheers
jimbo

I am not that tekk saavy at all. I have no idea about what ssh is, it took me forever to get this far.

I managed a direct connect on PS3 Media Server from PC to PS3, with ICS thru my WiFi, managed to add exceptions thru the firewall, had full function on everything, after some tweaking, then I tore it all down after I read that it might have been what was causing errors when I was trying to connect this VPN.

Now, I have countless hours on this and I am completely stumped, and frustrated.
I'm gonna give up. I have spent two days on this and I have had it. Didn't think a VPN was this hard. Thanks though.

mckillwashere said:

Holy Moses for what you are doing you don need to worry about ssh tunnels.

I would ideally like to do this just with Windows. Kinda throws Virtual PRIVATE Network out the window when using a 3rd party route with something like TeamViewer

I want to straight shot from his PC to my network.

I have no idea what ssh is or the other like ipSec etc. or SQL

I just saw short vids on YouTube on how to do VPN, looked simple. Nothing but problems.

mckillwashere said:

Have you looked at the tutorial yet?

Virtual Private Network (VPN) - Enable Incoming VPN Connections

Yes sir, to the point of exhaustion. As well as the Initiate Outgoing VPN tutorial.

I'll get back to you on this if I figure it out. I'm hating that I even tried this, right about now.

There is a VERY simple solution to what you're trying to do. LogMeIn was mentioned earlier, but you don't need their remote control product. What you need is their Hamachi product. It creates a virtual network between as many PCs as you wish. Just download and install it on both machines, create a network and join both computers to it. Then you'll be able to connect shares, etc. between the two machines regardless of the routers, ports, etc. between them.

Bump.....

Could this be why I can't connect?

I have GRE 47 protocol inbound exception now in firewall, which I just discovered....wasn't. Still can't connect.

Any other advice.