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- munkinasack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Good program. I use it alot.
- CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Just today, I was using Portable Firefox and had my school account DISABLED because of it. It's rediculous.
- Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No, unless your the only student and your parents property taxes pay the full 100% of the schools budget. Otherwise its still theirs. I dont want my tax dollars going to an unsecured network so some punk can surf porn in school. The school has a responsibility to use those tax funds in a responsible way, which includes securing the network.
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Use LogMeIn - it is a very good and java based - free too.
http://www.logmein.com - dark_helmet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9got to love my school's security. For some reason port 3389 (terminal services) is unblocked, i dont need VNC i can just use the remote administration built into XP and windows server. Also up untill 3 days ago, port 1723 (pptp) was unblocked giving us unrestricted access to the internet VIA a VPN server
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I like it too. But any admin worth their weight in poo would have VNC traffic filtered at the firewall. So if your school has a retard admin, this should work nicely! ;)
- shindig111, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11VNC is good but windows mstsc is equally good.... Here is a dummies guide to remote desktop : http://technopedia.info/tech/2006/05/09/remote-desktop-for-dummies.html
- jerwong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7FYI: for those who like windows remote desktop (me included), you don't need the terminal services client. You can actually connect using your browser if you've configured your home desktop properly.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdwebconn.mspx - chzypoof25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You Einsteins do realize that network admins read digg don't you?
- Fanon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Most school restrictions are in place because of state or city laws. If you sign an Internet agreement, you'll probably be in breech of that contract if you attempt anything like this.
Our network has nearly every port blocked. No FTP, no VNC (out of the school district's network), no anything. I'm thankful I'm on the IT end of the rope (ports are open for us). I'd be going crazy if I was a student. - slack0ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Logmein is great and I use it almost every day without problem. It uses http tunneling so gets through even the strictest firewalls blocking everything but web traffic.
Everything is encrypted pretty well on it too so while it does run via proxy through their servers I don't think there's much worry of them 'harvesting' anything. - Zjm7891, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Here is a link as the site is slowing to a crawl
http://yourwar.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8080/usb-saves/ - Zjm7891, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And now... a torrent of the popular portable programs he hosted
http://www.ss13.net/yourwar.torrent - 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In school, I seem to remember "hacking" meant doing anything on a computer that the adults did not understand.
- Zjm7891, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So why not use TightVNC?
www.tightvnc.org
Thats what I have always used? Whats the biggest difference? - tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I use vnc but i had no idea about ultravnc, so article was somewhat helpful.
An ssh tunnel tutorial would be really helpful for me. - retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Too bad my school's net security is locked down. This wouldn't ever work. You can't even use the java/browser viewer feature in UltraVNC.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thats when you sneak in the live OS CD - Knoppix ;)
Completely leave your Windows PC in the dust. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'd give this about 2 days before I get called to a very angry meeting with the head IT guys at our corporate offices and handed my walking papers. My company usually doesn't ***** around with this kind of stuff.
- asplodzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I took an alternative approach and got onto the IT team at my high school.
Oh, and nothing beats tunneling compressed TightVNC over SSH (Putty is your friend).
www.google.com/search?q=tunneling vnc over ssh with putty - hankosky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, MSTSC is a Better Solution also, as it emulates your pc and not presents your pc.
I have noticed, that MSTSC will run with less lag then VNC will. - yourwar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Very cool, I wish our school's security was that flawed. This is the only simple way you can do anything worth doing at our high-school. Last time I screwed around I got suspended. -.-' lol
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If anyone else is actually interested in doing this, note that this guide leaves out a lot of information.
1) Using straight VNC is unencrypted, so if you'd like, use Putty to set up an SSH session (if you can do VNC over internet, you're smart enough to set up SSH - just Google it - I was able to do this last week with no help from anything except one web page).
2) You need to open your firewall at home. Forward port 5900 to your local machine (or port 22 if using SSH).
3) Knowing your IP is important. One option is to periodically go to whatismyip.com from your home machine every week. Option two is go to dyndns.org and get a free acccount. You'll then be able to VNC/SSH to firstname.lastname.whatever.homeftp.net, instead of memorizing numbers.
4) Use TightVNC Server and home and TightVNC Viewer on your USB drive. It will offer good data compression/data rates. - sl4x0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what dumbass admin doesn't already know about VNC and other remote desktop utilities?
- bvdl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5VNC is slow and unsecure. Just tunnel RDP over SSH or something!
Another option might be: logmein.com
Logmein is free, works with every browser (java or active-x) and works trough every proxy. - hyzdufan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use LogMeIn, and it's great. I can even connect to my home computer that's on a DirecWay connection. If you're familiar with DirecWay, you know that you can't do anything that uses a port with that connection.
- xerox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ultravnc has some security flaws too. tightVNC has also been faster in my experience.
tightVNC FTW - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, I don't like the school's restrictions. I haven't tried this yet at school, but you can bet I will.
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3UltraVNC has the HTTP/java capabilities as well. TightVNC is a good choice too, although I mainly use UltraVNC.
But why does the article suggest a USB thumbdrive that's 256MB or bigger.... VNC programs aren't *that* big... - SDNick484, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you're using X-Windows you ought to check out FreeNX (download the GPL'ed server from your distro's repository and the client from nomachine.com). The performance is mind blowing, using it over the Internet is like using VNC over a LAN. FreeNX also uses SSL to wrap the connection so it's quite secure.
- golhra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Remote Desktop is more practical. It is very similar, but it plays audio/video where you are remote accessing from. This program plays it still plays on you original PC. But I like this program because it takes direct control of your PC from a remote place giving you more options of remotely restricted things.
- Sblader5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3maybe its just me but isnt this kinda an obvious tutorial?
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My school computers disable any USB storage devices. Is there a way round that? :)
- hoofarted, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13This is lame. Article should be titled "How to use VNC... For dummies"
Ok, mod me down now. - Mystikal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank god...ive been wanting something like this all year...
- cybersamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3im in school right now and i cant get to the site :(
stupid content filter... - CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At school, I normally just connect to my computer's SSH via the school's HTTP proxy on port 443 (this port's unblocked since it's intended for SSL traffic) and tunnel into RealVNC -- which means connecting to localhost on that machine. That way, they can't see/suspect anything... unless they're looking over your shoulder. ;)
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3slack0ne - You forgot to mention that it uses a 256 bit encryption for everything.
1337squirrel - WebSense is the easiest filtering software to get around. Brute force works almost every time. Just make a link on your desktop and click it 10-20 times, the site will usually open at least once. - hankosky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yes,. http://youriphere:5900
Vnc Java Viewer. - aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wasn't so at my highschool. In the CISCO class I was in, a group of kids (not including me) throw Quake III and Unreal Tournament on the computers. Simply renamed the .exe to notepad or calc or whatever and it worked wonderfully, everytime. Then again, "hacking" at school was considered making a short cut to C: That's what I got "caught" for. Right-Click -> New -> Shortcut -> C: -> OK. HACKER! They thought simply removing it from My Computer would do the trick. Silly school.
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2to tell remote desktop to use a differend port to connect you simply type in the host name or address followed by a colon and the port number, for example..
127.0.0.1:25 or myremotecomputer.com:25 if you use dyndns
to change the port that remote desktop listens on requires changing a value in the registry - kblsNbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You could change the RDP port # if you have a PC directly connected to the net (registry change)... or if you have a decent router just have a firewall rule that redirects.
For example, you could set it up to be listening externally on port 443 (or port 80) and have your router forwarding to your internal network to a computer on port 3389.
Connect using MSTSC with "external ip:port #" - ShadowMarth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm browsing on Firefox on a school computer right now with all my settings and bookmarks intact thanks to my lovely USB drive, so this isn't entirely necessary for me, but it is quite cool.
- smergs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nevermind. I think I have finally found a decent tutorial on how to do this. I've searched with google off and on over the past year and this is the first time I was able to find a tutorial like this.
http://www.damn.be/weblog/index.php/2005/09/28/connections-through-firewall-via-ssh-tunnel/ - kblsNbits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Enable IIS? Nah... i think i'll keep mstsc.exe on my thumbdrive thanks. Either that or ANYTHING else that works and doesn't require me to run IIS on my home PC.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have tried VNC, but I now live off of LogMeIn. You don't need a thumb drive to run it, all you have to do is go to www.logmein.com from a computer that has Java installed. If you go fullscreen, it is like you are at your home (or whatever computer you are accessing) desk. It's free and very easy to setup.
- 1337squirrel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not if WebSense is blocking Logmein.com. ;)
- Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Be forewarned all, there are some exploits for the latest version of UltraVNC 1.0.1. Use SSH or Hamachi, as someone else recommended. I also encourage the use of the DSM encryption plug-in as well. Follow strong passphrase guidelines, use common sense, and you'll be fine.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17378/exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17824/exploit - fazed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2not worth the risk... unless you run the security department you never know what has been implemented... sure that traffic is going through right now, but an application level firewall could be happily logging what you are using, where you are using it from and where you are remoting into.
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yea but what about schools who block all ports except 80?? Use the VNC java viewer that comes with the VNC server. Much easier and no USB thumb drive needed. http://remotecomputer/ is all you need to type in your schools computer and you need to change the default port from 5800 to 80 at home on the VNC server.
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