Duncan:
Heya. Some thoughts as to your question:
> I have two computers connected via ethernet cards to a hub and then an
> Internet server.
>
> I am running both in W98.
>
> I want to connect the two computers over the local connections rather
> than across the Internet.
Sounds like you've achieved this. :) When you say "an Internet
server" though, how do you mean? Is the hub connected to a modem
directly, or to another PC?
> I can connect them via VNC with the TCP/IP settings to a local IP
> address (via the IP Address tab in the configuration file under
> control panel). BUT that doesn't allow the computers to connect to the
> Internet because that requires the "Obtain an IP address automatically"
> to be selected.
>
> When I do that, I have the Internet connection but the VNC host/server
> computer can no longer find my VNC viewer in the listening mode, nor
> can my VNC viewer find the host/viewer whether I use the host local IP
> address or its actual IP address.
It should be easy. What it sounds like to me is that you're
using a different range of IP addresses when you setup statically
and when you setup "automatically". So, for example, when *both* of
your Win98 PC's get IP addresses automatically, can you VNC from
one to the other? Put your mouse cursor over the VNC icon in the
lower right service tray, and it will show a popup of the current
IP address -- that's the one you should use in the VNC viewer on
the other machine.
I suspect where you'll see a failure is when one PC is setup
to get an address automatically, and the other is setup statically.
So try the above, and let me know if it works.
cheers,
Scott
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