Adam: To connect across the internet, you need to do two things: 1) Set up port forwarding in your router such that each machine you want to reach from outside has it's own unique port number for VNC which is forwarded to that machine from the outside world.
2) The "LAN IP" (i.e. 192.168.x.y or 10.x.y.z, etc) address is not a "routeable" IP address. That IP does not travel over the internet. When it gets to your router, it is changed to the "real" IP of your router and that's the only IP that the rest of the world sees. So, for example, if your router's EXTERNAL / Real IP address is 123.231.213.111 (just to pick a number out of a hat) and you want to connect to a machine behind the router at 192.168.1.2, for example, you'd have to set your router to "forward" port 5900 to 192.168.1.2 from 123.231.213.111 so that anything attempting to connect to 123.231.213.111 on port 5900 would be sent to 192.168.1.2. Please see http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/133.html (FAQ about routers, VNC and port forwarding which explains it MUCH better and in MUCH mroe detail than I can go into here.) Also please see http://www.portforward.com for a bunch of good "how-to" documentation on a variety of popular router brands and models. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Stuart Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Unable to connect across Internet Hi: I am running 15 computers behind a firewall. All computers are Win XP and the office is connected via ethernet cable, with DSL as our connection. I installed VNC, set up a static IP address on all computers, and can view all office computers from any other without problems. I tried to connect to one of my office computers from my home. I installed a VNC viewer on my home office PC running Win XP and keep getting "connection timed out" errors. I am using the same static IP address which works while I am in the office, so why can't I connect across the Internet when the computers (Server and Viewer) are not physically connected? Thanks. Adam _______________________________________________ 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
