John, I'm not really familiar with your network but if you are using a router which has DHCP enabled, no one on the outside (Internet) will be able to see your systems hence the firewall is not as important. When you upgrade to SP2 you can turn the firewall off (that's the way it was before you installed anyway!) I think it is on Advanced button of the TCP/IP properties for the Internet connection (not the LAN connection - check it out on SP1 before you upgrade).
I have never used a firewall but the ports you mentioned are the right ones to allow if you go that way. Alan Watchorn Eshelman Appraisals, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (760) 692-4302 Fax (760) 692-4303 Wall, John said: > Hi Alan, > > I have not installed SP2 on XP platform although I did once install the beta > version and immediately uninstalled it because nothing worked afterwards. > > My understanding of SP2 XP is that is closes off all ports thus VNC I assume > is stumped. I have not reinstalled SP2 XP but our employer is eager to start > the procedure and I am concerned about VNC with this installation. > > As yet haven't read up on what to do but I have read that SP2 XP installs a > firewall with all ports closed off. > > So it is possible you need to look at the need to open port 5900 VNC and 5800 Javascript VNC via a browser. > > Just a thought but I would be interested from fellow users of VNC as I myself will need to know how to open these ports once SP2 XP has been installed. > > Regards. > > John > >> ---------- >> From: Alan Watchorn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:39 AM >> To: VNC List >> Subject: RE: server closed connection unexpectedly >> >> I use VNC 4.0 on WinXP, Win2000 and Win98 and I have not had any problems. >> I installed for the first time using VNC 4.0 and have not had any experience >> with earlier versions or upgrades. Have you tried uninstalling the old version and installing the new version from scratch? >> >> Alan Watchorn >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (760) 692-4300 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:40 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: server closed connection unexpectedly >> >> >> Today i updated form vnc 3.3 to 4.0... since i'm "using" 4.0, on XP (pro and home whith SP2), i always get the message: >> "server closed connection unexpectedly" if i try to connect to the server. >> At the application log i found many errors: "SocketManager: unknown network event for listener". >> There is no firewall on this machines, also the XP firewall is inactive. >> >> Im really frustrated about this... all previous versions worked fine whithout of problems! >> _______________________________________________ >> VNC-List mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To remove yourself from the list visit: >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list >> _______________________________________________ >> VNC-List mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To remove yourself from the list visit: >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
