Another alternative, which I use, is to assign your local IP addresses yourself and use port forwarding.
Step 1. Assign static IP addresses that are outside the range your DHCP server uses, but are on the same subnet. Example for a 192.168.1.0 subnet: If your DHCP server has a pool of 50 addresses starting 192.168.1.100 You would assign IP addresses 192.168.1.5n to the machines on your LAN. Step 2. Educate yourself on the port forwarding capabilities of your routing. This may also be called a static NAT entry depending on your router. Set up a static NAT on your router to forward port 5900 to the static IP of the machine running VNC Server. Hope this helps, Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Watchorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "chas (kysdaddy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: RE: VNC over INTERNET and LAN > I'm not sure that I can answer your specific question but here is how IP > adressing works. There are two addressing modes; static and dynamic. > > In static mode you are assigned an IP address and it is unique so anything > sent to that IP address comes to your computer. It is your address and > you always get the same address (until you relinquish it and then it may > be assigned to someone else). > > Dynamic address depends on a protocol called DHCP (Dynamic Host > Configuration Protocol) and you are dynamically assigned an address from a > pool of available addresses ON YOUR NETWORK. The addresses are USUALY > assigned from the pool (Internet Standard) of private addresses, starting > with 192 or 168 as the first three digits of the address. (ISPs usually > use their own IP addresses). DHCP often assigns the same IP address to > the same system (I can explain why that happens but it is not really > relevant here) with the result that a lot of times things work for a while > and then stop working. > > It sounds like maybe one of the computers is using a local address which > is not 'visible' to the other computer (Local IP addresses are not passed > over the Internet). The solution is to have your ISP assign static > addresses to each computer and use them. > > Sorry if this answer is long-winded and didactic. I will be glad to share > my networking knowledge if it helps and you contact me directly. > > Alan Watchorn > Eshelman Appraisals, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone (760) 692-4302 > Fax (760) 692-4303 > > chas \(kysdaddy\) said: > > I am having this same issue, the only difference is that the machine that > > I > > am trying to reach is behind a win 2003 sbs server. I'm assuming that it > > is > > an addressing or a port forwarding issue but can't find the fix/answer. > > > > > > Davide Cerbo davidecerbo "at" virgilio.it > > Sun Aug 1 13:43:01 2004 > > > > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > ---- > > > > How can I connect to a PC in a LAN over Internet? > > Example: > > If the ip of the server of the LAN is for example: 89.123.256.44 > > and the ip of the computer with VNC server is for example: 168.123.0.20 > > How can I do? > > > > Thanks. > > Davide > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
