Eric,
As a user of the LinkSys box, this is sounding fishy. Are you, by any
chance, using the DHCP server of the firewall? Have you updated to the
latest firmware? Used to be that certain port forwarding or filtering
features wouldn't work if you were using the DHCP server (don't ask me why).
Could be the culprit, particularly if making your box a DMZ host makes it
work.
As far as correct ports, it depends on the display. If you're using 0 (like
most of us), then 5900 and 5800 are the only ports you need to forward.
Bill Taroli
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From: Eric Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 18:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Firewall question..
New subscriber here (thanks for the idea David!!). VNC has worked well for
me so far but for one issue. I cannot get my Linksys router to forward
ports properly through its firewall. I am forwarding port 5800 and 5900 to
the static internal IP of my machine, but no matter what I do I cannot get
it to work from the outside.
I have enabled Remote Administration of the router, so I can go in and
manually put my machine in the DMZ from the outside world, and then access
VNC just fine either with through the web server or the VNC
client. Obviously, this leaves me wide open to the rest of the world and I
already had a problem getting hacked when I forgot and left my machine in
the DMZ for a long period of time. Came home that day to find Norton had
stopped a virus (actually a trojan) from an unknown source.
I should add that I am currently running a Windows ME machine as the
server, and my workstation at work is running NT 4 SP5.
TIA
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