Bill, Very nice job in the explanation of what you've already tried. I really wish everyone was as thorough as you were in their first email.
I can't see anything wrong with what you've done. In fact, you've even tested to make sure that your VNC servers are accessible from outside of your router. One further test that I would attempt would be to go to a friend's house (where you know there's no massive security concern and firewalling) and attempt to connect from there. I'll stick neck out and predict you'll have no trouble. My guess is that your employer has outgoing filtering enabled and it may be very difficult to circumvent. It would be also prudent to point out that your employer may not appreciate you doing anything to try to circumvent their IT security. Regards, Arthur ________________________________ I've stopped 50,782 spam and fraud messages. You can too! Free trial of spam and fraud protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/sig/?rc=f9r9z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kinnison Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Router Settings Just joined the group & am setting up VNC so my wife & I can log into our home PCs from work. But I'm having a similar problem as Rob. The equipment on the home network looks like this: Broadband cable modem - Motorola VOIP router - Netgear FVS318 - 3 PCs It's setup like this so the Motorola can handle VOIP quality assurance. The Motorola also handles DHCP. The two PCs we need to connect to are setup with a static IP. Both the Motorola & the Netgear have ports forwarded: 3389, 5800 & 5900 forwarded to static IP of PC1 5801 & 5901 forwarded to static IP of PC2 Both PCs are running WinXP Pro SP2 & I've put in firewall exceptions for WinVNC4.exe & ports 5800, 5900, 5801 & 5901. I'm running DynDNS & the client is updated from the Netgear. The network has been setup like this for over 2 yrs. and has worked well for everything we've tried. VOIP, DVR recording TV programing, VPN access to multiple work networks, and Remote Desktop access back to PC1 (hence the port 3389 being forwarded to PC1). So I'd like to setup remote access to 2 PCs (PC1 & PC2) & thought the VNC java viewer would do the trick. We both work for companies that have rather large secure networks so I figured the likelihood of being able to use a java viewer was pretty good. Is it likely to expect ports like 5800 or 5900 to be open in a large corporate network? The problem is when I try to connect via the VNC Viewer, I get the infamous "Unable to connect to host: connection refused (10061)" error. The address I'm using is the DynDNS domain name, domain.homeip.net:5900 or domain.homeip.net:5901. And if I try using Internet Explorer, I get the "Page cannot be displayed" error. The address I'm using is the DynDNS domain name, http://domain.homeip.net:5800 or http://domain.homeip.net:5801. I can use VNC to connect to the various PCs within the network without any issues at all. And when I run the script on http://gotomyvnc.com, it tells me that 5900 & 5901 are working, but I still can't connect. Checking you out at IP address "xx.xx.xxx.xx"... xx.xx.xxx.xx is accepting connections on Display 0 (TCP port 5900). xx.xx.xxx.xx is accepting connections on Display 1 (TCP port 5901). xx.xx.xxx.xx is not responding on Display 2. ............................ Scan of "xx.xx.xxx.xx" is complete. Hit 'reload' or 'refresh' in your browser to scan again. Sorry about the length of this email. Hope I've outlined things well enough that someone can make a recommendation as to what my next step is. Thanks for your time. -- Bill - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
