For those of you who do not know, TouchPad Pro is an iPhone application that allows you to wirelessly see and control your computer using VNC. You can do anything a touchpad and keyboard can do all from your iPhone. Heres the catch, you can only do this if you are on the same network as your computer. To me, this ruins it. The only time I would ever want to see and control my computer is when I am away from it! Heres and example, I was at school one day and I realized that I forgot one of my history homework assignments. If I could use TouchPad Pro from my school, I could easily go on, open up mail.app and send myself my homework. I then would go onto a school computer and print it out from there. How cool would that be.
This is what we are trying to accomplish:
It’s possible and I’m going to show you how to do it. Basically, you need to make it so that your computer is “seeable” at the port 5900 (VNC) from anywhere. This involves doing two things:
Step 1) Sign up at a dynamic DNS service. The best one and the one that worked for me was No-IP.com. Once you set it up correctly, No-IP.com helps you by remembering the IP address of your router no matter what your ISP sets it to. First simply make an account. Once that is done, add a host. Call “Home” and it will make your full host name at H=home.no-ip.biz. Make sure you put in all the right information including your IP address. Now download the DUC client on the downloads tab and choose your OS. Run that and press update. You are now done with your first task. No matter what network you’re on, you can always connect to your router by entering your home.no-ip.biz address in Touchpad Pro. You now need to tell your router to forward any VNC requests to your actual VNC server.
Step 2) Your router IP address can be found in the Network preference pane. When your have that, put it in your browser. This will either ask for a password or go straight to the control panel. If it asks for a password, most likely the username is blank and the password is “admin.” This may be only for linksys routers. The control panel will be different for everyone, but this website shows where to go for every router. Find your router and follow the directions. If you have a linksys router, it may look like this:
If it does, click on Applications & Gaming. Then you should put in something very similar to this:
Name the application whatever you want, set the start and end at 5900, set the protocol at booth and put in your local IP address. Yours will most likely be different than mine. Then check enabled and your done. Save the preferences and close the window. Wait about 5 minutes and go to this website. Type the port 5900 and test it out. If there is a success, congratulations, you did it! The first time I tried, it didn’t work, but I tried tweaking some things and I figured it out. My big mistake was I put in the wrong IP address!
If there was a success, go into TouchPad Pro and try it out, it should work from anywhere in the world!
Anyways, if you guys have problems, comment and I will try to help.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hi, i am having some problems with the ports or smth. They keep appearing as closed and i did exactly the same on my linsys.
Also.. instead of an ip i have to type myname.no-ip.biz and then the noip password?
thanks
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:49 am
Hey Ted,
This is incorrect. In Touch Pad Pro, you want to have the your IP as your regular IP address in whats my IP.com and your password that you set up on your computer as your VNC password. If you don’t have a password, set one up now because it means that anyone from anywhere can get on your computer. As for the ports, make sure your going to the right IP address in the part where you see I put “100″. If you are on a Mac, it should be your local IP address in network/system prefs. Try all of this and see what happens. Good luck!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am
hello i am done with the fixing router check this: http://img77.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bitmapdh9.png
but when i go 2 http://canyouseeme.org/ and enter the port; when i check says me error.. that cant find it why?.. please i need your help thnx
June 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Querd,
Make sure that that IP address is correct. To me it looks more like an subnet mask rather than an IP address. Also check both UDP and TCP. If that doesn’t help, keep trying, you will eventually figure it out.
July 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am
hi i set up no-ip with no issues, it was all working fine but afer te third time i restarded my computer it wouldn’t let me pull up any websites, i undid everything i did and deleted the ports on the router thingy and went on the network connections and clicked on the obtain ip address and DNS autoamtically button but still doesnt let me go on the interenet, also my wifi on my phone doesnt work, im pretty sure its cuz of hat too, it won’t let me go online while im on my wifi
any help please
ps email me any solutions since i have no internet and my phone is the only source (wifi doesnt work either)