Hi guys, Thanks for all this.
I have set up port forwarding now on the Netgear router. But I am still not connecting to the VNC Server. Is there any way I can simply test the port forwarding? E.g. I had a hunch and tried "ping 195.137.108.117:5800" from a DOS prompt on another machine => with no joy - should this have worked if port forwarding was working properly ? I am running Win XP on the VNC server. Conor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Watchorn Sent: 27 October 2004 19:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: connecting to a VNC server behind a firewall (on my home LAN) I think Conor can probably skip step 3 (locking IP addresses to particular MAC addresses - systems - with router as DHCP server) since he is using static IP addresses. Conor, just make sure you have DHCP disabled on the router if you are truly using static IP addresses for everything - or make sure DHCP is assigning IP addresses which do not conflit with the IP addresses you have assigned statically. Alan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Asher, Scott Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: connecting to a VNC server behind a firewall (on my home LAN) 1) Find out your PC's (the one you want to VNC into) MAC address. 2) Login to your router. 3) Configure your router to always give the same internal ip (192.168.x.y) to the PC. 4) Configure your router to forward traffic into port 12345 (whatever number you choose) to the IP you configured in (3). 5) Log into your PC from outside your firewall by opening a vnc connection to a.b.c.d:12345 where "a.b.c.d" is the "real" ip address of your router and 12345 is the port you configured in (4). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Conor Rafferty Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: connecting to a VNC server behind a firewall (on my home LAN) Hi folks, I run a home office, 3 pcs with static LAN addresses (192.168.0.2 ..3...4) connected to internet and each other via a Netgear router. I have installed a VNC server (as a service) on the main machine, the "file server", at 192.168.0.2 (static). Netgear router of course has a firewall. I have heard that it is possible to connect to my VNC server from outside the firewall. It involves configuring the router for something called "Port forwarding". I think I understand the concept. I need to map my servers LAN ip address (192.168.0.2) to whatever port on the router VNC viewer uses to connect to VNC server. However I have no idea how to go about it. I.e. how to set up the router and/or PC (server). Anyone able to point me in the right direction ? _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
