Situation: trying to reach VNC Server at the office while at home through the Internet.
I know, I know, this has been asked and answered a bazillion times. But I've looked at the archives and have checked everything I can think of and it *should* be working. But it isn't. I have the conceit that I'm not overlooking anything obvious. Please prove me wrong! The gory details: VNC Server is running on a workstation. The workstation has a fixed (local) IP address on the LAN of 192.168.1.101 The office router (Linksys BEFW1154 V2) has a fixed WAN (public) IP address, and it has Port Forwarding turned on: Port 5900 as TCP forwarded to 192.168.1.101 Port 5800 as UDP forwarded to 192.168.1.101 The router is connected to the Internet through a cable modem. The router itself is reachable from home because I can ping it from home (I disabled Block WAN Requests to test that). >From the office LAN, I can connect to the VNC server two ways: A. locally at 192.168.1.101 and, B. and at <office_router_public_IP_address>. But from home, when VNC Viewer is told to connect to <office_router_public_IP_address>, we wait for about 15 seconds, then get a "Failed To Connect To Server" VNC reply. Discouraging. Attempts to contact the server's Java server at <office_router_public_IP_address>:5800 result in "page not found," or "the connection has been refused". Sign me, Puzzled In Petaluma MikeE _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
