William, the answer to your question is yes. It's a Dynamic IP that my ISP seems to change every 24 hours.
I have solved the issue with the help of Andy's suggestions. I did some experiments with "telnet localhost 5900" and "netstat -a" I found that 5900 was truly listening but the fact that EchoVNC could not see that VNC Server was listening on 5900 made me pause. I have a PC and a laptop on my LAN, both with VNC Viewer and Server. Here's how the solution presented itself: 1. I performed a "telnet localhost 5900" on the laptop and got the RFB 003.008 response. On my PC (Server PC) I did not receive the same response...hmmm. 2. I checked the VNC Server setting and noticed a difference between the two computer's Connection settings. The laptop-with the successful "telnet localhost 5900"-showed +255.255.255/0.0.0.0 in the Access Control box. The PC-without the successful "telnet localhost 5900"-had nothing in the Access Control box. 3. I added a + (discovered from reading other posts) in the access control and it gave a default setting of +255.255.255/0.0.0.0 4. I tested the settings by telnet'ing and also by netstat'ing and saw that 5900 was LISTENING. 5. I started EchoVNC and it promptly showed the VNC Server status as running on 5900. I had someone remote into my box and it was successful. Thank you very much Andy and William for taking the time to respond to this scenario. It turned out to be a simple fix after all. Happy Networking, Aaron Hill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Hooper Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cannot connect Aaron Hill wrote: > New to VNC and new to networking in general but like most everything, I > jump right in. I have VNC Server set up in service mode on my home PC > (XP). > Every attempt to connect to my server PC from an outside internet > connection has been blocked. I can connect to other PCs with the viewer > and I can remotely access my PC with my laptop when it is connected to the > LAN. Port > 5900 is wide open and can be sniffed by gotomyvnc.com. When trying to connect with the viewer, are you using the same IP that gotomyvnc.com displays? -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ 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
