Theo,

Do you see a corresponding response packet from the VNC Server machine?

The "timed out" error means that the viewer computer is not receiving a
response from the server, so you'll see it both when the viewer packets
can't reach the server, and when the server packets can't reach the viewer.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomtzigt
> Sent: 13 December 2005 14:55
> To: 'James Weatherall'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> 
> > "when connecting from the WAN"
> I use the public IP address of our edge router from a 
> computer outside of
> our LAN
> 
> > Are you actually connecting from a machine on the same LAN, 
> but using the
> > WAN IP address of the router?
> When 'inside', I use the LAN address of the server from a 
> client on the same
> LAN
> 
> > What do you mean by "I am seeing the router forward the proper port"
> What that I mean that I see the following firewall rule fire:
> Sat, 2005-12-10 20:28:05 - TCP packet - Source: outside 
> computer address -
> Destination: WAN address of edge router -[Service access 
> request successful
> Src 1164 Dst 5901 from WAN]
> 
> This rule is a port forwarding rule that forwards a TCP 
> request to the LAN
> address that I can successfully connect to when on the 'inside'.
> 
> 
> Theo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:20 AM
> To: 'tomtzigt'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> 
> Theo,
> 
> When you say "when connecting from the WAN", what *exactly* 
> are you doing?
> 
> Are you actually connecting from a machine on the same LAN, 
> but using the
> WAN IP address of the router?
> 
> Are you connecting from a machine on another LAN, using the 
> WAN IP address
> of the router?
> 
> What do you mean by "I am seeing the router forward the 
> proper port"?  How
> are you "seeing" the router do that?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomtzigt
> > Sent: 13 December 2005 02:55
> > To: 'James Weatherall'
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> > 
> > So, if I am successful in connecting to the VNC server when I 
> > am inside the
> > LAN, AND I have port forwarding set to forward to the same IP 
> > address that I
> > am using when successfully connecting to the VNC server, AND 
> > I am seeing the
> > router forward the proper port when connecting from the WAN 
> > but I am still
> > seeing a vnc error: "unable to connect to host: Connection timed out
> > (10060)" what is the next step to see what might be misconfigured?
> > 
> > Theo
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:52 PM
> > To: tomtzigt
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Trouble connecting
> > 
> > Theo,
> > 
> > No.  If a computer receives a TCPv4 connection request for 
> a port on 
> > which there is nothing accepting connections, it will 
> respond with a 
> > "Connection refused" message.  "Connection timed out" means that 
> > literally no response whatsoever was received from the server 
> > IP address.
> > 
> > Please see the tips at http://www.realvnc.com/portforward.html, 
> > particularly the net-test link, which can be used from your 
> > VNC server 
> > computer to determine whether your server is in fact contactable.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> > 
> > 
> > tomtzigt wrote:
> > > I am confused. The computer doesn't respond does it? Some 
> > software that is
> > > listening to that port would respond, not? And that should 
> > presumably be
> > the
> > > VNC server which is running in a process.
> > > 
> > > Whatever it is, I need more than that to get unstuck. The 
> > IP address of
> > the
> > > machine that is running the VNC server is 192.168.1.10. 
> > That address works
> > > when on the inside using vnc viewer. It is also programmed on the
> > firewall.
> > > The port numbers are correct, the IP forwarding is correct. 
> > Other services
> > > are working, but not VNC. So I am looking for something 
> > that can tell me
> > > where that vnc packets are getting lost.
> > > 
> > > All  help is appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Theo
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:15 AM
> > > To: 'tomtzigt'; [email protected]
> > > Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> > > 
> > > Theo,
> > > 
> > > Error 10060 does NOT mean that no process is listening to 
> > the request.  It
> > > means that no *computer* responded to the request.  This is 
> > most commonly
> > > because of firewall configuration or because the IP address 
> > that you are
> > > using is wrong.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomtzigt
> > >>Sent: 11 December 2005 13:57
> > >>To: [email protected]
> > >>Subject: Trouble connecting
> > >>
> > >>I am stuck..
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>
> > >>I installed the latest VNC server on Fedora Core 2 and client 
> > >>on Windows XP.
> > >>When I am on the inside of the network, I can connect to a 
> > >>running Xvnc
> > >>process, but when I am on the WAN I can't. The VNC Viewer 
> > >>error I get back
> > >>is: "unable to connect to host: Connection timed out 
> > >>(10060)", which after
> > >>reading this forum I interpret to mean that no process is 
> > >>listening to the
> > >>request. I've painstakingly sifting through all the messages 
> > >>from the router
> > >>and it successfully forwards the VNC TCP request to the 
> > >>machine on which VNC
> > >>is running, but I can't get a VNC session going from the WAN 
> > >>side. Anyone
> > >>have any good ideas how further to debug this problem?
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>
> > >>Router message:
> > >>
> > >>Sat, 2005-12-10 20:28:05 - TCP packet - Source: xxx - 
> > >>Destination: xxx -
> > >>[Service access request successful Src 1164 Dst 5901 from WAN]
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>
> > >>And VNC server is running:
> > >>
> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] tomtzigt]$ ps -aux | grep vnc
> > >>
> > >>tomtzigt  4025  0.9  2.7 17752 14276 pts/3   S    Dec10  
> > 10:25 Xvnc :1
> > >>-desktop head-node -httpd /usr/share/vnc/classes -auth
> > >>/home/tomtzigt/.Xauthority -geometry 1400x1100 -depth 16 
> > >>-rfbwait 30000
> > >>-rfbauth /home/tomtzigt/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -pn
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>
> > >>Looking forward to get unstuck.
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>
> > >>Theo
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