Simon, If I were to guess, I would say the problem is in the wireless connection of the router. I've had the exact same problem with another model of Netgear routers. Everything works fine over the Ethernet cable connection, but not over the wireless. I bet you the following:
1. If you connect you computer via Ethernet cable and hover over the VNC icon, the ip address will not be 192.168.0.2, rather the IP you get from your provider. 2. If you connect via Ethernet cable, you will be able to access your computer. 3. Even over wireless, you will be able to access your computer from another one inside your LAN, but not from outside. Someone with more knowledge of router software may be able to shed some light as to why this is so. It's because of this that I started an earlier request for a master list of consumer routers which work fine with VNC over wireless. Alas, I've gotten no feedback. > Message: 1 > From: "Simon Veingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'B. Scott Smith'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Connecting Through Wireless Firewall > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:09:16 +0100 > > Further to my note below, I indeed had another VNC service running which > I've stopped. So I've now changed the Accept Connections and Serve Java > ports to 5900 and 5800 respectively and the Viewer does not have the old > 'Not Accepting Connections' message. I've also updated my Netgear DG834G > router to reflect the old ports of 5800 and 5900. > > Now if I http://<ipaddress>:5800 I still get the same error as before (Page > can't be displayed), but removing the ':5800' takes me to the password popup > for the router which leads me to believe I've not opened the ports properly > on the firewall. > > On the Netgear router (DG834G) I've created a Service called VNC, type TCP > and UDP and a port range of 5800 to 5900. I've then gone into Firewall > Rules and created a new rule inbound for the VNC service to 'Allow Always' > with a LAN Server IP address 192.168.0.2 (the same IP as the VNC Server is > displaying). I've also create a new rule outbound for VNC service to 'Allow > Always'. > > Is there an obvious error I've made? How can I test if I've configured the > firewall correctly? > > Thanks for your guidance. > Simon _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
