Pretty much, you're going to have to be at another machine, preferably not local, although that depends a bit on your modem / router. Some routers are smart enough to realize that when you tell it to connect to it's external IP from inside that it should just bypass that. So, whether or not you have an "intelligent" router your best bet is to try and connect from your neighbor's house or a buddy's house or something like that. Preferably somewhere within easy walking distance so you can make modifications to the forwarding rules without having to drive across town. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:10 PM To: 'John Aldrich' Subject: RE: Port forwarding John, Is it possible to test from the same machine? I'm sitting at the machine I want to connect to (the VNC Server) must I be at another machine before I can test the settings? Mike T -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Port forwarding Not sure I understand your question, but I'll try to answer it as best I can by explaining how it works... When you attempt to connect to your machine from the internet, you tell VNC you want to connect to another machine. It pops up a box asking for the IP address of the machine you want to connect to. You will then put in your MODEM's IP. If you have everything configured correctly, your modem will know to forward port 5900 to your PC behind the modem/router and forward the traffic back out to your remote PC. What you will need to do on your modem is tell the modem to forward port 5900 on the internet side of the modem to port 5900 on your PC's internal IP address. ie: internet ->Modem ->PC Hopefully this is clear enough. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Thomas Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Port forwarding I'm trying to conceptualize why I can't get my VNC setup to work. If I understand correctly the VNC viewer needs the IP of my machine not my DSL modem. I believe I have the correct ports open. Then I need to port forward my modem to my machines IP? Is this correct? Or do I have it backwards? Mike T _______________________________________________ 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
