[FreeNX-kNX] Workstation without Fixed IP as FreeNX server

[Tyler Ellis]

It sounds like that corporate workstation doesn't have internet and the 
boss is politely asking you to plug in the network cable, otherwise the 
corporate stupidity would be so hard to predict, i.e. a lone machine out 
in the middle of a network to its own with out a default route but 
something special this would infer special knowlege on your part and you 
shouldn't imagine such things your only imagining broken networks.

only kidding on the mail list.
LROUFAIL at nc.rr.com wrote:

>This would require that the firewall route traffice to that server
>through that port, right?  I am thinking about a corporate scenario
>where the workstation may not be directly accessible through a firewall.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lawrence
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jesse Byler <lists.freenx at web19.eml.cc>
>Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:35 am
>Subject: Re: [FreeNX-kNX] Workstation without Fixed IP as FreeNX server
>To: User Support for FreeNX Server and kNX Client <freenx-knx at kde.org>
>
>  
>
>>Depending on how your network is set up, the easiest thing to do  
>>might be to use one of the dynamic DNS providers such as 
>>dyndns.com.   
>>NX client machines connect to the NX server using a host name, and  
>>the dynamic DNS provider maps that host name to whatever the 
>>current  
>>dynamically-assigned IP address of the NX server is each time the  
>>host name is looked up.
>>
>>For this to work, the server needs to be running an update daemon  
>>that keeps the dynamic DNS provider's record current.  The web site 
>>
>>of your provider will give instructions for that, but there are 
>>many  
>>free tools available for this purpose.
>>
>>Disadvantage: it's probably not a good solution for a commercial or 
>>
>>high-volume server, since there's always a time window after the  
>>server's IP address changes but before the DNS record gets updated  
>>during which clients will try to connect to the old address.  In  
>>practice for a personal server used by a few people this isn't a 
>>big  
>>deal.
>>
>>On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:01 AM, LROUFAIL at nc.rr.com wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>This may have been discussed before.  I would like to have the
>>>capability of having a workstation without a static IP be 
>>>      
>>>
>>accessed  
>>    
>>
>>>as a
>>>freenx server.
>>>
>>>I don't know a lot about networking, but I was thinking I could 
>>>      
>>>
>>use  
>>    
>>
>>>some
>>>kind of proxy (maybe SOCKS or a VPN) to give the workstation a 
>>>      
>>>
>>static> external address.
>>    
>>
>>>Is this possible with the nx software, or with an external 
>>>      
>>>
>>program  
>>    
>>
>>>on Linux?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Lawrence
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