I use the freeware version of realVNC to monitor a PC running some CCTV capture software connected to a linksys router using a wireless adaptor. The software on the server PC is windows 98, the viewer PC is running XP. Today when I tried to get connected to the server pc I received the Error 10061 message. After examining some of the posts relating to this problem on the vnc-list I tried varoius options on my router (i.e port forwarding, DMZ etc) to no avail. To help analyse the problem I downloaded and used a freeware IP packet sniffer program. (http://www.plasticwater.com/PlasticSniffer/) This software identified that the server PC was responding to messages from the viewer PC, with the server sending the messages on port 5900 to the viewer PC initially on port 2785. Each time I attempted to make the connection the port on the viewer pc the message was sent to was incremented by 1. i.e. 2786, 2787, 2788 ........ I checked that this port incrementation occured for 5 successive attempts. It looked like the server PC was respoding but didn't know where to send the message. On checking the server pc I discovered the problem, the VNC service was not configured or running. After selecting the configure and then the start service options I was able to access the server pc with no difficulties. It appears that although the server pc was not running the service there must have something that was stil resident that was responding to my initial requests.
Hope its of some help to others experiencing this problem. Stuart _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
