Used to be the case, but a single colon works these days. Try it! Philip Herlihy
-----Original Message----- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: 18 November 2009 19:05 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Accessing more than one computer On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Philip Herlihy wrote: > Presumably you've successfully routed port 5900 to the one machine > you're managing now. > > You have two options, depending on the capabilities of your router. My > router allows me to "translate" an incoming port, so I can connect using > port nnnn and the receiving computer sees a connection on mmmm. If your > router can do this, then you can leave the VNC servers operating on port > 5900, and set the router up to make the translation. With many routers, > you set up a named "service" for the incoming port, and set up the > translation when you configure the firewall "rule". > > If your router won't do this, then you need to configure the VNC service > to use some other port, eg 5091. Then create additional "services" in > your router (you might name one VNC-5901) and set up additional rules > to route such connections to the desired machines. You can do this > many times, for many machines. To access the machine you want, simply > append a colon and the port number to the router's IP at the client. > So, if you were connecting now to a VNC server at 111.222.333.444 you'd > instead use 111.222.333.444:5901. > I could be mistaken, but I thought if you were entering a *port* number you needed to use a DOUBLE-colon, eg ::5901, whereas if you were specifying just a "screen" number, you could do :1, or :2 (for 5902, etc.) Or was this one of the things tweaked in more recent releases? _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
