I had already opened up ports 5900-5902 and forwarded those ports to my computer on my router on my computer at home, but I still got a black screen when trying to connect to it from school... what's the problem?
For starters I'd make the connection from home to home first, all on the LAN. If it works there but not at school then you are likely looking at a firewall problem on one end or the other.
At home, with no connection established, run netstat on both machines. Then make the connection and run netstat again on both machines. Compare the before and after lists, the difference should reflect the actual ports in use.
You may be running into a problem with either the school or your ISP blocking the needed ports. Also on the ports you've mapped, did you check to see if some were TCP vs UDP?
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