Monica Arias scribbled on :
> I have installed VNC4 at home and on my computer at
> school.
> At home I am
> using a Linksys router. I have also installed the dyndns
> updater and created
> an account there. I have set the port 5900 to be excluded
> from the firewall
> at home. I also forwarded ports 3389 - 5901 TCP from the
> router setup. I had
> been using the gotomyvnc.com website and noticed that it
> showed "not responding" for all displays. I ended up
> going to the "Administration" tab in the router setup and
> enabled "remote router access" and
> set the port to
> 5900. This is the only way I was able to see that Display
> 0
> was accepting on
> port 5900. I also disabled firewall protection on the
> router.
> From the home
> computer, while running the vnc service I also run the vnc
> viewer which
> prompts me for my password and then goes on to a loop of
> windows. But when I
> try to connect from my computer at school, it says
> "connection closed unexpectedly." When I try to connect
> thru the dyndns service, it says "connection refused"
> whether im at home or at school. I also
> setup the ddns
> service in the router to the host name I'm using. Am I
> setting up the router
> incorrectly? I am really at a loss as to what to do.
>
Monica, I'm not positive, but if the gotomyvnc.com website says it's seeing
your server, then you've probably got it working right. As for not being
able to connect using your DYNDNS name from inside, I'm not sure what the
problem is... it may be that your router won't let you access the external
interface from inside, from what I understand, this is quite common. You
might try it from a friend's house, just to be certain that's it.
My guess is that school has a firewall blocking VNC from getting through, so
you might want to try using something like EchoVNC or set up an SSH server
and tunnel VNC. If that doesn't work, I'm not sure what to tell you. FYI,
EchoVNC is a helper app for VNC, not a replacement distribution.
John
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