Your router at home is probably blocking the connection. You need to enable at least ports 5901 and/or 5801 through your router and point it to your machine at home. Once you do that, it *should* work. I would suggest, though, that running VNC and having that port open to the outside world is asking for hackers to take over your PC. What I'd suggest is using some sort of tunneling protocol (you'll have to install some sort of software on both ends) to make an encrypted tunnel and only allow THAT protocol access to your PC at home. Once you've created the secure tunnel, you can use that tunnel to access your PC using VNC.. there's some nice "how-to" docs at http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/28.html John
-----Original Message----- From: Ian McDowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help connecting via Internet I may be missing something very simple here as I'm kinda a noob to VNC but I am trying to connect to one of my home pcs via the internet from my Pc in work, however I have a router at home. Now I know what my external IP address is for the router and I know what my internal IP is for the PC I'm trying to connect to, however I don't know how to get the viewer on my work pc to connect with my home pc. Is there a simple way of telling the viewer to first connect to the external IP then to the Internal IP or am I missing something Can anyone please help? I have VNC working between my 2 networked PCs really easily using the internal IP addresses, I just don't know how to connect from an external PC. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ 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
