socket program to access remote desktop

[hardik.rajani]

Hi

I was trying to make a remote desktop program using java socket programming. I have been successful to develop it for LAN. But i am wondering that how to use the same application over internet. As i am not an networking guy, i don't have enough knowledge of tunneling and opening a port for public and route to some IP, etc.

Anyone please help me out.

[Aviras]

Perhaps Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is something you should check out if connection itself is troubling you.

Basicly it's a little higher-level programming than the regular serverSocket/socket programming, taking care of http tunneling itself.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/rmi/index.html Would be a good start.

Good luck, I'd like to hear your progress :)

[hardik.rajani]

Perhaps Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is something you should check out if connection itself is troubling you.

Basicly it's a little higher-level programming than the regular serverSocket/socket programming, taking care of http tunneling itself.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/rmi/index.html Would be a good start.

Good luck, I'd like to hear your progress :)

Thanks for reply. I was on holidays so have been late.

Actually i have made one demo program for RMI. It is also working fine on LAN. Than I have tried searching about running the same over internet. I have got some clues about RMI/IIOP.

I have again tried compiling whole unit again. But i have not been able to run it over internet.

I think there would be some problem regarding public IP and access over ports.

Would you please suggest further.

[Aviras]

If the person you are trying to connect to is also behind a NAT,
you not only need to know the public IP address but also their private IP.

I believe RMI has some NAT hole punching system, so I don't think it would be necessary to port forward the NAT router you are trying to connect to.

I'm not completely home in RMI, but google will give you some explanations.