Couple of preliminary things / gotchas: 1. Port forwarding is on in your router, right? 1a. what port? 5900? Is your winvnc listening for display 0 or oops do you need to change that? (If winvnc is listening on display 5, for example, then you need to change that to 0 or forward port 5905 instead and when you try to connect, use the :5 at the end of the address.)
1b. What IP are you forwarding to? Let's say 192.168.1.50. Does the laptop have that same IP? (perhaps you have the laptop set on dhcp and it is obtaining an ip that is different from what you have in the port forward table?) 1c. What firmware version of the router are you using? I have version 1.44 Nov 21 2002, mine works fine. 1d. Are you using the "Forwarding" page or the "UPnP Forwarding" page? I don't know if it makes a difference, since I have entries on both pages (and all work), but I have vnc set up on the "Forwarding" page, not the UPnP page. -Jonathan Maton -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan C. Miller To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/4/03 11:52 AM Subject: Linksys BEFSR41 Router Problems I have been unsuccessful using VNC remotely from my laptop computer to access my home machine which is behind a Linksys BEFSR41 Etherfast/Cable DSL Router. I have followed all of the instructions on the realvnc website for doing so and have worked directly with Linksys technical support without any success. When the laptop is attached to the home network, I have no problem accessing the home machine using one of the locally assigned IP addresses. However, once I try to use the external IP address assigned by my cable Internet access provider, the connection to the server fails. If anyone has any information which will help me solve this issue, I would be greatly appreciative. Make it a great day! Jonathan Miller _______________________________________________ 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
