Or look into whether or not your router can do Static DHCP assignments, but you definitely want a set IP and not a dynamic IP assigned by a DHCP server.
Here's what I do. I assign static IP's on both sides on the connection. I port forward 5900 on BOTH routers to the appropriate IP's on both sides (assuming there are routers on both sides). Setting a DMZ is useless since in many routers this has nothing to do with port forwarding. This can be confusing for sure, but once you understand the basics of how NAT works, this makes perfect sense. I've stopped 83,729 spam and fraud messages. You can too! One month FREE spam and fraud protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/safetybarsig/?rc=f9r9z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:12 AM To: 'Stephen'; William Hooper Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: What on Earth is Session Zero? Not necessarily. Do you have the machines set up to receive IP addresses via DHCP (automagically) or do you have the IP addresses hard-coded? Even if you have them set up to receive an IP address automatically via DHCP, there's no guarantee of which machine will get what address. That's why it's a good idea to hard-code the IP address on the machine, especially in cases like this where you want a specific machine to receive a connection forwarded from the outside. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:57 PM To: William Hooper Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: What on Earth is Session Zero? ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:32 PM Subject: Re: What on Earth is Session Zero? > Please send replies to the list. > > Stephen wrote: > >>> Inbound Services > >>> # Enable Service Name Action LAN Server IP address WAN Users Log > >>> 1 Yes Any(ALL) ALLOW always 192.168.0.2 Any Always > >>> 2 Yes Any(ALL) ALLOW always 192.168.0.3 Any Always > >>> Default Yes Any BLOCK always Any Any Never > >> > >> What brand and model of router? > > Netgear DG834GT > > Thanks. > > According to the Netgear manual, you should be creating new services > to forward specific ports from the internet to your internal machine. > Take a look at about page 5-12 for more information. > > >> Without more information, I would say your problem is that you are > >> trying to forward all the ports to two machines, so your router is > >> ignoring the second machine. > > > > I wasn't aware of this. I run Windows Media Encoder on both machines (not > > at the same time). This includes Windows Media Server, and remote > > connections from Windows Media Player are accepted by either machine. The > > router does not ignore the second machine in this case, nor for any > > applications running on it, like Internet Explorer or Winamp. > > Internet Explorer and Winamp don't provide services to the Internet, > so they wouldn't have an issue. > > > I will try swapping the ethernet cables on the router and see what > > happens. > > The ethernet cables have nothing to do with this. It is the order the > firewall rules are applied. Your existing rules appear to forward > every port from the internet to your 192.168.0.2 machine. This > probably isn't desired. But is it not the case that if I swap the ethernet plugs on the router then my XP machine will become 192.168.0.2, and the ME machine will be 192.168.0.3 ? That might be enough to get things going, until I can figure out how on earth I'm supposed to know every single port that every other program might need so that I can do selective port forwarding. [snip] _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
