On 01/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> This is probably a noob question, but I have been unsuccessful in
> searching
> archives for an answer. I'm trying to connect to my home pc from work via
> VNC. For testing purposes, I've left the ports as their defaults. I have
> disabled the windows firewall on the home pc where vnc server is running.
>
> Like most offices, my company has a firewall that makes it impossible for
> me
> to even ping my home machine. So instead, I tried to connect to my vnc
> server
> via browser with http://<myip>:5800. This actually gives me some progress
> as
> the browser apparently connects to my home pc and brings up the VNC java
> prompt asking for connection details. But for some reason, I can't get
> past
> that java connection prompt.
>
> The default entry for server is <myip>:0. However, trying that results in
> a
> connection timeout. I've tried <myip>:1, <myip>:5900, <myip>:5901,
> <myip>:5800, <myip>:5801, but they're all the same.
>
> What would cause the browser to be able to connect to the vnc
> mini-webserver
> on my home PC but not be able to complete the full connection after
> that? I
> don't believe I forwarded port 5800 on my router at home, but since I'm
> already connecting to it, it seems like that wouldn't be it.
>
Are you using the correct IP address in <myip>? Because I feel like
you are saying that you've NOT setup your router to forward 5800 but that
works whereas you've setup the forward of 5900 but that doesn't work. This
doesn't make much sense.
The pitfall most people are doing is the confusion between private IP
address and public IP address. Go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ and
check that you're using the correct public IP address.
HTH
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