Help remoting into a machine on a home network!

[LightingBird]

What the best way around this situation?

I know its probably simple. Say for example, I have an employee that I am trying to remote into his machine and do some work. He or she is behind a personal router and has a ip address of 192.xxx. Normally, I can connect through my vpn to them if they have a 172.xxx address but that is not possible. So how can I connect to them by live meeting, netmeeting, or any other app that needs their ip address if they are behind a router with a 192 etc ip address?

I know this is simple but I can't think of how to do this.

 

[Hefemeister]

You can set up the router to port forward to the internal ip of the target computer. Then you could use the ip given by the ISP to connect. You can get their ISP ip from What Is My IP Address? - IP Address Lookup, Internet Speed Test, IP Info, plus more If they have a dynamic vs static connection this ip can change over time so you would have to make sure you are using their current ip.

 

[aqee_se]

About dynamic ip There are few programs available which sits in someone's computer and whenever a person is connected it sends its new ip to the person who has putted effort to get that. usually hackers do that. so that can a bit of your solution. but still you've to resolve ip every time.

 

[Lexluethar]

Logmein.com

Free and automatically works around the above issues like firewalls and router configurations.

 

[Zaraphrax]

Logmein.com

Free and automatically works around the above issues like firewalls and router configurations.

+1 for LogMeIn. Although, Hamachi is a little more sofisticated. I prefer it over LogMeIn because I find it easier to manage the machines I'm looking after (for family, friends, etc). And it has a few more features which I don't think you can do with LogMeIn.

 

[LightingBird]

Wait logmein is free? I thought you had to have an account to use it. What about small business owners is it still free?

 

[Lexluethar]

I'm a SBO and i use it to manage my clients computers. It is a great tool.

Yes it is absolutely free. They have a couple different versions that are for pay, but you can do most remote management with the free version. You can also update/upgrade any PC to one of the for-pay versions if you find it necessary to complete something the free version doesn't provide.