It all depeneds on the infrastructure of the hotel, and what clients are supported by it, each client uses a different protocol.

Yeah but all the tools that they use, i already looked and checked around, come up as a virus, and i can't have that happening. Thanks for the input though. If you got any other suggestions please...

But will VNC allow me to remotely install the server over this open "common" port? I need to be able to install the server side of the application w/o the users intervention.

Like i mentioned before i want to be able to use HTTP tunneling (port 80 Cloaking). Also i want the user to still be in control as well and i don't want to have to play around with the firewall...

Just woundering why you said you had a 802.11b router when it didn't matter? do you even have ethernet ports on your router?? are you using the wireless to connect?? or the internal ethernet port?

Not true big max, you can setup two wireless cards to communicate w/o a AP. This is called ad-hoc a believe. and if yous et them up that way they should atleast get an APIPA address, try to ping...

ipconfig /flushdns

If all you are doing is tranferring between to machines and don't have a hub you are going to need a cross over cable and then staticly assign both machines an ip address (if they are both windows...

If you doing vpn connections linksys is the way for easy no setup connections.

goto www.whatismyip.com or look in your router for your public IP (WAN IP, Inernet IP....) and make sure that you forward the correct ports to the correct machine as well.

I'm looking for a way to use a remote administration program (dameware maybe) that will be able to ack like the windows help in XP (meaning it can penitrate though a firewall). Does anyone know of...

on the command line run the command 'tasklist /svc'
this will break down for you what each process is being used for.

In my RedHat 9.0 linux vmware machine it found the vm network adapter but said that it is not present. how can I fix this, and what causes this?

Rick

you may want to check if you have the blaster virus.

Rick