Thanks. I found Superscan to be a great utility as well. Mike
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:54:35 +0000 (GMT), Scott C. Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
