hello, situation: i am a mac os x (leopard) user. at my home, i have a single ip address from the isp distributed amongst me and my roomates through a belkin wireless router.
what i want: i want to access/control my mac from my workplace using vnc. what i did: to do what i want to do, i created a vnc server on the mac, and forwarded the server port from my internal ip address to the router's (external) ip address so that i can communicate with the port from outside the home lan what happened: within the lan, everything's rosy, i can access my mac from roomy's PC using a viewer. also, usually i go to http://ip-address:port in the browser and if it i see the RFB 003.008 message, i assume communication is fine. from office, it looks like port forwarding is working fine. http://my-external-ip:forwarded_port works fine and gives me RFB 003.008 in the browser. thus i am assuming the communication is fine and my requests from outside the lan are being properly forwarded to the vnc server port (5900) on my mac. the problem: vnc viewer from office wont connect! though browser shows the protocol version message, vnc viewer is not able to find the server. ALSO! ping <external_ip> doesnt work but http://external-ip works (takes me to the router setup page obviously). question: why could the ping not be working? if the office network was "blocking" my outgoing requests, wouldn't http://external-ip:port give a failed connection too? why does it give rfb message? i guess if the ping problem is solved, vnc viewer should work. and suppose, there IS some kind of blocking going on, is using a proxy the solution to be able to ping my router? if it is, how can i do that? if not, is there any other way? extra: i just joined this list and this is kinda urgent and i know this is not an excuse for not going through the list and see any previous messages like this, but i really hope you folks forgive me and help me out here :) thanks. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
