This is what I would do as well - keep servers (services) listening on their default ports, and just use port-forwarding to distinguish the machine.
BTW, a lot of SOHO routers will not let you access a server on your LAN using the public IP address (WAN) - by default mine (Alcatel SpeedTouch Home/510) won't. Try testing from outside your LAN (at work, or via a dial up connection on a spare computer at home). HTH -----Original Message----- From: "James Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'William Hooper'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Problems connecting Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:40:51 -0000 Organization: RealVNC Ltd. > So both are listening on display 0 (which is port 5900). > > > but when I try to connect to > > the computer setup for 5901 I cant connect, no matter which > computer it > > is. > > Because both are listening on display 0 (which is port 5900). > > > Both computers have Static Ip's > > > > 192.168.1.101 and 102 > > > > I have my router currently setup to 5900-5900 -- 192.168.1.101 and > > 5901-5901 -- 192.168.1.102 > > You need to set the 192.168.1.102 machine to display 1 (which > is port 5901). Aha. William has found the actual problem! An alternative to his solution is to configure the router: <wanip>:5900 -> <.....101>:5900 <wanip>:5901 -> <.....102>:5900 Note that although the external ports have changed, the local ports are both 5900. Cheers, Wez _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
