I assume you mean that you have this setup:

Lab Computer 1--- L1
Lab Computer 2--- L2
Home Computer --- HC (or somewhere off campus)

And you say you can connect to L1 from L2, but not from HC to L1.  Is
that correct?  If so I'd bet that the lab computers have ports 5800 and
5900 blocked. You could see if the lab techs would forward them for ya,
but I doubt it.  Although 5800 is only needed if you are using Internet
Explorer or the like to connect.  Does that help or am I way off base?
A good test may be to ping the ip address using 5900 (e.g.
100.2.300.400:5900) that probably wont ping if this is the case.

Eric R. Green
http://www.orangewhip.net


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Christopher Poh
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:25 PM
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Subject: Cannot connect to Server

Hi,

I know that this question is prohibited in the mailing as stated in the
FAQ. Sorry for annoying anyone.  Your help is very much appreciated. I
stayed in the 
university campus and try to connect to a VNC server in my lab from my
personal computer at my  accommodation. It seems that the VNC viewer
cannot find the
server. I have tried using host name and host ip address, but it still
failed. The strange thing is  that, I can ping the server just fine. I
can also use SSH to connect
as well. I am sure the VNC server is running just fine, because I can
connect to it from a different  computer running VNC viewer in the same
lab. Can anyone
help?

Thank you in advance.

-Chris
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