Remote control

[lennart]

We have three Vb6 applications running on three different PC:s in a company in another city.
To travel there takes about four hours with car.
So - to give better service and save time and money, we want to remote-control these computers.
But the remote company only have an dynamic IP-adress.

Is there someone out there that have a nice solution on this problem?

/Lennart

[deranged]

ooh ooh pick me!

Get remote desktop or a VNC program, and get a DNS service. A really good free one is provided at http://freedns.afraid.org/ . You'll get something like [insert string of text here].[domain].com. They offer a lot of domains as well. Afraid.org has a great feature where if you enter a specific address in the web browser (unique for each account), your domain name will be attatched to the IP that sent the request. You can create a small program (or ammend the existing vb6 one) to send a request to that page periodically. Then you can use remote desktop or VNC and connect using the domain name rather than an IP.

[thegreatone]

ooh ooh pick me!

Get remote desktop or a VNC program, and get a DNS service. A really good free one is provided at http://freedns.afraid.org/ . You'll get something like [insert string of text here].[domain].com. They offer a lot of domains as well. Afraid.org has a great feature where if you enter a specific address in the web browser (unique for each account), your domain name will be attatched to the IP that sent the request. You can create a small program (or ammend the existing vb6 one) to send a request to that page periodically. Then you can use remote desktop or VNC and connect using the domain name rather than an IP.

Exactly what i would have suggested.

Unless instead, you went to a site with one of your VB6 programs, retrieved your IP from it and went from there ?
Like, www.aprelium.com/ip

[-TPM-]

The other option would be if the main office has a static IP, the remote office could VPN back.

[wiz126]

thegreatone, www.aprelium.com/ip have so much ads you should use this site
www. What Is My Ip .com

[thegreatone]

thegreatone, www.aprelium.com/ip have so much ads you should use this site
www. What Is My Ip .com

Yet, there are no ads for me...

[deranged]

Nor do I get ads. But these sites only give you the IP of the computer that you're on. What he needs to know is the everchanging IP of the computer(s) that he needs access to, yet are 4 hours away.

Another good idea that might be slightly unreliable would be to make a program that checks the IP every hour or so, and if it's changed, send an email notifying of the change. I still think the dns would be the best route. You would only need to memorize something like 'work.deletedit.com' and that's always your work's IP address.

[dglienna]

You can use a program like PC ANYWHERE if you can dial into the remote machine. That way you could get the IP address, and disconnect, then use PC ANYWHERE to connect via the IP address. It would be a one minute phone call, and you wouldn't have to worry about the IP address. You can even have the remote machine call you back. We used to use this method to update a db once per month, mostly just compacting them. They saw the phone call, which justified the service contract.

[olivia_ton]

Try this Remote Access Software.
There are no IP Issues involved with this software.