Outgoing VNC/remote-desktop request

[Tyler Aviss]

Hey all,


I seem to remember that there was a way to do this with VNC, but I
can't remember for sure. Is there a way to "request" assistance from
one linux machine to another. That is, rather than the standard way of
running a VNC server and having a remote machine take over, you could
send an outgoing "here, take control" request

Alternately, a way to do this via SSH would work as well. I've got
some relatives with a 'nix box I setup, but for some reason their
router (or their ISP, but I suspect the router) is blocking incoming
SSH/etc. If I can manage to have somebody on the other end connect to
one of my own servers (which have public IPs), I should be able to
take care of things from here.

Any help would be much appreciated.


Thanks,


TJA
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