Re: VNC in listening mode, connection fails with read: Connection reset by peer (10054)

2009-10-14 Thread Claudio Coletta
Greetings, [...] On another PC in my Belkin's internal network, I can start up the VNC Server, select Add Client, and connect to the listening viewer successfully by using 192.168.2.10, and can see the server machine's desktop. Works perfectly. If on that same machine I instead select Add

Re: VNC in listening mode, connection fails with read: Connection reset by peer (10054)

2009-10-14 Thread Kevan Rehm
Philip, Thanks for your reply. I've managed to work around the problem, but thought I should give an update just in case anyone else runs into the same thing. First, I do understand that I shouldn't have to port-forward 5900 and 5800; I had simply reached the point where I was willing to try

RE: VNC in listening mode, connection fails with read: Connection reset by peer (10054)

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Herlihy
That all sounds ok to me, except that I've never had occasion to test the connection via a dynamic DNS name from/to a client within the same subnet - obviously you'd never need to do this apart from testing. Two possibilities suggest themselves (but don't assume I haven't missed anything!):