A 07:16 2001-12-11 +0200, Opentec com a icrit :
>We have developed a LAN using a Windows98 SE machine as a host.
>The host machine accesses the Internet through an ISDN modem.
>It also communicates with the client machines via Ethernet cards and uses
the
>Internet Connection Sharing tool in order to act as a Gateway Server.
>
>We are trying to run the VNP software in a machine which is outside the LAN
>(accesses to the Internet through a 56K modem) and gain access to either
>the host
>or any of the client machines. Every attempt 528to reach the LAN machines
>has failed.
>As expected, everything works fine the other way around. I mean, we can
>access the
>"outside the LAN" machine running the VNP either from the host or one of
>the clients.
>
>Are there any suggestions as to what we should do to overcome this problem??
[Alain] I used to have a similar problem (I'm not sure it was exactly my
problem but it looks alike, it is very similar if I understand well). VNC
was working wonderfully through my LAN but not outside. I had asked a
solution on this email list, tried 2 different kinds of hacks and it never
solved the problem.
Last week, I uninstalled the Win98 Internet connection sharing facility
(it's called + Partage de connexion Internet ; on the French version of
Win98 SE which I, of course, use), then uninstalled the TCP/IP protocol and
reinstalled it [the IP Cx Sharing facility leaves traces there even after
it is uninstalled], then installed the Sygate Home Network instead.
It immediately, efficiently, and totally solved my problem. And the
Sygate HN is brilliant, it worked instantly without any problem and any
parametering at all, while I remember the installation of the MS IP Cx
sharing facility to have been a nightmare (and I had tried WinRoute too but
it was too complicated to parameterize: I had difficulties sending email
for with WinRoute unknown reasons when everything else seemed to work
fine!!! Sygate HN is totally problem-free and automatic in its
configuration)...
Now, within my LAN, under Sygate HN, I use the private IP address of
the Win98SE server with VNC (the service-provider-assigned IP address does
not work with its viewer at this level) and outside, I use the IP address
assigned by my service provider, as expected.
Outside the LAN, it is very slow with a telephone connection but I
generally connect via my employer's LAN, which is a fast link. Nevertheless
I use the option "Restrict to 8-bit pixel" when I start the viewer and it
is acceptable.
I also use the free version of ZoneAlarm at home without a problem,
concurrently with Sygate HN (I do not use the Sygate firewall provided for
free with Sygate HN). And VNC works wonderfully well now in all situations.
My home server is under Win98Se and my portable machine VNC client is
under Win2K... the world upside down, but it works...
Alain LaBonti
Quibec
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