Hey Everybody, I just wanted to write to thank everyone for their help in fixing my VNC problems. I couldn't figure out why my port forwarding wasn't working and why I didn't have access to VNC, and that's why I started with square one with the networking questions. It turns out that my Netgear router isn't very smart, and I had the settings correct the entire time. I had remote management turned on (to access router settings remotely) and that is what was blocking VNC. Unlike Linksys routers that allow you to forward one IP and port to another IP and port, my Netgear does not allow you to add port information. Remote management of the router and VNC used the same address and different ports so whenever I tried to access VNC it wouldn't work (b/c the Netgear Router doesn't also forward the port number). Turning off Remote management fixed my problem and now it works. I've learned a lot about VNC and Networking in the process and from reading the FAQ and your posts, now I just wish that VNC included the ability to save files to different computers without having to email/transfer them a different way. I wonder if the 4.0Beta of RealVNC is worth a download. Anyway, thanks everyone for your assistance!
David _____ From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:02 PM To: David Subject: Re: Router/Firewall Settings for Port Forwarding Continued... David wrote: Hey, I have read everyone's answers and I understand the router/firewall/VNC settings and my need for port forwarding, but I still do not understand what to actually do to workaround this problem. I am on a LAN and my IP address is w.x.y.z and I used to directly connect my computer to the ethernet. It is a dynamic address but it is always the same address (meaning I choose the automatically get address and it's dynamic and technically I guess it isn't static) but for all intensive purposes it remains as the same IP so I don't need a DNS service or anything... Anyway, from a different computer on the internet I log into http://w.x.y.z:5800 to access VNC. I tried two ways to set-up port forwarding with my Netgear. The first way was to forward the server IP address w.x.y.z for ports 5800 to 5900 (TCP service not UDP). The other way I tried was to forward the server IP address 192.168.1.2 (which is the IP my router assigns to my computer always as 192.168.1.1 is the router and I only have one computer so it's .2). Neither way works b/c as you said, it will forward a certain address with certain port numbers TO an IP address but not to an IP AND port. So if there was an option to forward w.x.y.z:5800 to 192.168.1.2:5800 everything would be fine. The reason I changed my router's IP to w.x.y.z was to make sure that was the problem and when VNC now thought the addy was w.x.y.z it worked (but obviously internet didn't b/c the router got confused). So basically, how can I set up port forwarding so that when I type in http://w.x.y.z:5800 it forwards to 192.168.1.2:5800 instead of just 192.168.1.2 b/c that's my problem right? I was thinking that since my router had a remote management feature (where I can type in http://w.x.y.z and I can log into my server settings from anywhere on the internet) that this might be causing a problem? B/c even though for remote management I have port 8080 lets say to log in, I don't even need to type a port to get to the router settings. I will try turning remote management of the server off and try both port forwarding addresses one more time, but I am at a loss on how to forward a TCP 5800 or 5900 to 192.168.1.2:5800 or PC1 and not just to 192.168.1.2. Any ideas???? If you click on the link below, you can view a screen shot of the only port forwarding settings I have with my Netgear. http://www.unc.edu/~dmcgibbo/crap/netgear.jpg 192.168.1.2 Definitely belongs in the space you've indicated. I don't know so much about your port range, though. I would do TWO ranges of 5800-5809 and 5900-5909. The Java viewer app uses ports in the 59xx range; the vncviewer uses the 59xx range. For instance, here is a remote screenshot of my junky Win98 box, with the router's forwarding screen displayed. This is using the vncviewer program in Linux. I'm looking at 209.30.93.217 port 5903, entered as 209.30.93.217:3. Now, I'm gonna break this connection and do it with browser's java plugin using port 5803. Here it is: Now, for the final touch. I'm gonna look from the Windows box back toward myself but do it strictly via the LAN. Once you think you have your router set up right, start your VNC server, browse to http://www.gotomyvnc.com and click the button to see if they can see your server. If they can, it'll work; if not, it's back to the drawing board. And here's what my network looks like since I have one computer... I\ N| +--------+ T| w.x.y.z | |192.168.1.1 +------+ 192.168.1.2 E+----------+ Router +--------------+ Pc 1 +------------- N| | | +------+ E| +--------+ T/ "This is correct, the problem is that the router has not been told that when someone on the internet wants to connect to the router (ie. w.x.y.z), with vnc (ie TCP port 5900), that the person really wants to connect to PC1, so would the router please be so kind as to forward the request on to PC1? You need to find out how to tell your router how to forward TCP 5900 (and ALSO TCP 5800; the Java stuff needs BOTH) to PC1. That is all you are missing!" Right - that is the info that I need to fix this! Do other routers like Linksys have settings for ports and my Netgear just doesn't or what? Thanks for everyone's help! 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