Re: Accessing more than one computer
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Ricardo Stella wrote: You need to look at your router's settings. You then create rules to redirect different external ports to different internal IPs: PORT 5900 --- IP 192.168.0.10 - Port 5900 PORT 5901 --- IP 192.168.0.11 - Port 5900 deangi...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, How do I configure my router to allow me to view more than one computer in the same network? Please provide detailed instructions as I am not an expert in computer networking This is usually done using a web interface to the router. You'll have to look at your router documentation to figure out exactly how to do it. Another trick is to make certain computers always have the same internal IP so that the redirection always works. Again, how this is done depends on exactly which router you own. Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Accessing more than one computer
Used to be the case, but a single colon works these days. Try it! Philip Herlihy -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: 18 November 2009 19:05 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Accessing more than one computer On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Philip Herlihy wrote: Presumably you've successfully routed port 5900 to the one machine you're managing now. You have two options, depending on the capabilities of your router. My router allows me to translate an incoming port, so I can connect using port and the receiving computer sees a connection on . If your router can do this, then you can leave the VNC servers operating on port 5900, and set the router up to make the translation. With many routers, you set up a named service for the incoming port, and set up the translation when you configure the firewall rule. If your router won't do this, then you need to configure the VNC service to use some other port, eg 5091. Then create additional services in your router (you might name one VNC-5901) and set up additional rules to route such connections to the desired machines. You can do this many times, for many machines. To access the machine you want, simply append a colon and the port number to the router's IP at the client. So, if you were connecting now to a VNC server at 111.222.333.444 you'd instead use 111.222.333.444:5901. I could be mistaken, but I thought if you were entering a *port* number you needed to use a DOUBLE-colon, eg ::5901, whereas if you were specifying just a screen number, you could do :1, or :2 (for 5902, etc.) Or was this one of the things tweaked in more recent releases? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Accessing more than one computer
On Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 02:04:51PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I could be mistaken, but I thought if you were entering a *port* number you needed to use a DOUBLE-colon, eg ::5901, whereas if you were specifying just a screen number, you could do :1, or :2 (for 5902, etc.) Or was this one of the things tweaked in more recent releases? A double colon forces a port, otherwise the client assumes that anything over 100 is a port, and anything under is a screen number. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hillro...@robinhill.me.uk | / / ) | Little Jim says | // !! | He fallen in de water !! | ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Accessing more than one computer
On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Philip Herlihy wrote: Presumably you've successfully routed port 5900 to the one machine you're managing now. You have two options, depending on the capabilities of your router. My router allows me to translate an incoming port, so I can connect using port and the receiving computer sees a connection on . If your router can do this, then you can leave the VNC servers operating on port 5900, and set the router up to make the translation. With many routers, you set up a named service for the incoming port, and set up the translation when you configure the firewall rule. If your router won't do this, then you need to configure the VNC service to use some other port, eg 5091. Then create additional services in your router (you might name one VNC-5901) and set up additional rules to route such connections to the desired machines. You can do this many times, for many machines. To access the machine you want, simply append a colon and the port number to the router's IP at the client. So, if you were connecting now to a VNC server at 111.222.333.444 you'd instead use 111.222.333.444:5901. I could be mistaken, but I thought if you were entering a *port* number you needed to use a DOUBLE-colon, eg ::5901, whereas if you were specifying just a screen number, you could do :1, or :2 (for 5902, etc.) Or was this one of the things tweaked in more recent releases? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Accessing more than one computer
You need to look at your router's settings. You then create rules to redirect different external ports to different internal IPs: PORT 5900 --- IP 192.168.0.10 - Port 5900 PORT 5901 --- IP 192.168.0.11 - Port 5900 deangi...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, How do I configure my router to allow me to view more than one computer in the same network? Please provide detailed instructions as I am not an expert in computer networking Regards Dean ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Accessing more than one computer
How do I configure my router to allow me to view more than one computer in the same network? Please provide detailed instructions as I am not an expert in computer networking This has been covered a few times before (I think I even drew an ASCII diagram to explain the logic). In essence, if your multiple host machines are behind a router on a home or SoHo network, that router will have to be able to support port mapping. You leave the listening ports as they are on each host, and instead remap the incoming ports on the router, as that's what all machines on the Internet will see as the 'internet-facing' device. On my home network, I have (for example) port 16900 mapped to 5900 on 192.168.1.10, and port 17900 mapped to port 5900 on 192.168.1.20. Some routers can do this, some can't so easily. What networking equipment and set up do you have on the network hosting the VNC host machines? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Accessing more than one computer
Presumably you've successfully routed port 5900 to the one machine you're managing now. You have two options, depending on the capabilities of your router. My router allows me to translate an incoming port, so I can connect using port and the receiving computer sees a connection on . If your router can do this, then you can leave the VNC servers operating on port 5900, and set the router up to make the translation. With many routers, you set up a named service for the incoming port, and set up the translation when you configure the firewall rule. If your router won't do this, then you need to configure the VNC service to use some other port, eg 5091. Then create additional services in your router (you might name one VNC-5901) and set up additional rules to route such connections to the desired machines. You can do this many times, for many machines. To access the machine you want, simply append a colon and the port number to the router's IP at the client. So, if you were connecting now to a VNC server at 111.222.333.444 you'd instead use 111.222.333.444:5901. Philip Herlihy, London -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of deangi...@optusnet.com.au Sent: 18 November 2009 05:20 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Accessing more than one computer Hi, How do I configure my router to allow me to view more than one computer in the same network? Please provide detailed instructions as I am not an expert in computer networking Regards Dean ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
