Help with VNC

[The General]

Okay so basically I have a Mac Pro that I need to control remotely with VNC (unless there is a better way) and by remotely I mean from my office across town to my house.

I enabled VNC by going to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop -> Access Privileges... -> VNC. I downloaded Chicken of the VNC and put it on my MacBook. It works fine when I'm at home, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it from outside of my LAN.

I have my IP address, but it doesn't want to connect. Do I need to forward some ports or something like I do with bittorrent clients?

Also, my IP address is dynamic ... is there any way I can use my .Mac account or something ... so that I can just type in for example mac.com/myaccountname instead of having to remember my IP address and all that?

 

[swiftaw]

If your mac pro is behind a router then you will need to forward to appropriate ports.

As far as what IP address to connect. Check out a service like dyndns.com This will allow you to choose a name to connect to, rather than having to remember the IP.

 

[The General]

Which are the appropriate ports? Or how do I figure that out?

 

[swiftaw]

TCP 3283, 5900
UDP 3283, 5900

(According to the sharing prefs control panel)

 

[The General]

I don't see that anywhere but I'll take your word for it and try tomorrow.

Thanks for the help.

 

[swiftaw]

I don't see that anywhere but I'll take your word for it and try tomorrow.

Thanks for the help.

Prefs->Sharing->Firewall->Apple Remote Desktop->Edit