Mike:
Heya. Sorry for the late reply, but I thought I'd
suggest something relatively simple: when you're testing out
your router's port-forwarding, it may not work correctly if
you test it out from the same LAN. That is, some routers do
not allow "looping" of connections from one machine to another
on the same LAN, via the router's external IP address and
whatever port-forwarding adjustments you've made. You can
connect "directly", using the LAN IP address, of course,
just not via the router's IP address (which you *would* use when connecting from somewhere else on the Internet).
Hope that helps. This situaiton is a fairly common cause of the "Connection refused (10061)" error, in my experience.
-Scott
I currently have a VNC server running on my first computer listening on port 5900. I set up a new computer, installed VNC, configured it to listen on port 5901, duplicated the router port forwarding for the new port and the new IP, and enabled the port in the McAfee firewall. But when I try to connect to the second computer I get "unable to connect to host: Connection refused (10061)."
Disabling the McAfee firewall does nothing either. I even get the same error if I shut the other computer down. I can't figure out what could be wrong.
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