Meel Me wrote:

> 
> You offer a good solution for people who connect to the Local Area 
> Network one a month or so.
> But I will never connect to the Local Area Network. And when I'm abroad 
> for months, I'll (almost) always connect to the internet from behind a 
> firewall. So the BackupPC server can never connect to my laptop, because:
> * The BackupPC server doesn't know the ip-address of my laptop.
> * Even if the BackupPC server would know my ip-address, then the request 
> of the BackupPC server would be blocked by the firewall.
> 
> That's why I want to set up the connection (over the internet) from my 
> laptop to the BackupPC server.
> 
> Do you know another solution?

A connection through openvpn is just like being directly on a LAN segment (or 
as 
much like that as you want it to be) even though it is going over the internet. 
   You can configure it with known private IP addresses.  It just needs one 
(prefereably UDP) port permitted or forwarded (NAT is OK) in through the 
firewall.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day 
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on 
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/