George:
Heya. I've two suggestions:
1. Go back into your LinkSys setup, and set it up to forward just one
port from the external side to your VNC server: "TCP-5900". Choosing
a large range isn't really "playing it safe" -- WinVNC will listen
on 5900 unless you tell it differently. As for the address the
LinkSys box should forward this to, choose the LAN IP address of
your target VNC server.
2. Get this one VNC Display #0 working, and then worry about getting
the Java-viewer part working if you want too. These setups are so
much easier to debug if you can start with a small amount of
functionality and add to it after you've verified its working.
Lastly, when you test the VNC connection with a VNC viewer,
be sure to test it from *another* ISP, something on the "outside" of
your firewall. This is practically all I use my AOL-dialup account
for. :) If you try to test with a viewer running on the same LAN as
your VNC server, it usually won't connect to the external IP address
like you'd want it to.
Good luck!
-Scott
> I have the latest firmware for my Lynksys-1.47 or something like that--but I
> managed to find the Advance options, and in there I found the Forwarding
> tab. I entered WinVNC in some Custom Application field, and then the port
> range I specified was from 5800 to 6000 and checked for both UDP and TCP
> protocol--cause I wanted to play safe you can say!--and they should forward
> to the IP address that the routher specifies as its own.
>
> I tried again last night to starte the viewer and then enter the IP that my
> Cable Modem company assigns my machine--which is of course different than
> the routher has for itself--and I could not connect to the server again.
>
> Any other suggestions? My Cable Modem company does specifies a proxy to be
> used with our browser connections to the Internet--if that has any bearing
> to this problem.
>
> George G. Ortiz-Mejias
> ICQ: 33972141 (GeorgeGBoy)
> AIM: GeorgeGBoy
> MSM: GeorgeGBoy
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