Patrick, What version of the viewer are you using? Also - a less commonly known problem - it is possible that you are experiencing problems with a "black hole" router between the twp systems. I'm not sure how VNC responds to excess packet fragmentation, but it may be worth checking.
One way to do this is (if the remote system doesn't drop ping requests) is to attempt to ping it with large packets and the non-fragment flag set. On Windows systems, here's how you would do that. If the remote system is at IP 123.123.123.123, then try: ping -l <packet-size> -f 123.123.123.123 and vary the packet size from about 200 up to 1468 or so. If you start losing contact below 1468, chances are there is a fragmentation issue between you and the server. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Linley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-06-26 18:28 Subject: can connect only from some pc's > I finally got winvnc to work on port 80 through our firewall - I can > connect to it from some locations, but not from another location. As > far as I know there are no 'outgoing' ports locked out on the 2nd > network, as I can connect to other machines on ports other than 80. > > If I define a port other than the correct one (-5820), it gives me an > error message immediately stating that it failed to connect to server, > but when I attempt to connect to the correct port, it does nothing. the > process just hangs, which tells me that it sees the server, etc. I am > just not getting the authentication dialog. > > Thanks, > > ****************************************************************** > Patrick A. Linley > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
