On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:40, Ian McDowell wrote: > I may be missing something very simple here as I'm kinda a noob to VNC > but I am trying to connect to one of my home pcs via the internet from > my Pc in work, however I have a router at home. Now I know what my > external IP address is for the router and I know what my internal IP is > for the PC I'm trying to connect to, however I don't know how to get > the viewer on my work pc to connect with my home pc. Is there a simple > way of telling the viewer to first connect to the external IP then to > the Internal IP or am I missing something Can anyone please help? > > I have VNC working between my 2 networked PCs really easily using the > internal IP addresses, I just don't know how to connect from an > external PC. > > Thanks > > Ian
Hello Ian... Yep, you are right, this doesn't work of the bat, you need to play around with several things to be able to connect into you home network. This really has nothing to do with VNC except that VNC happens to be the first application that most people use that needs this connect functionality. So your problem is really network administration. Now for an answer to your question! The easiest way to achive this is to configure your router at home to redirect connections to your pc inside the network. Doing this will allow you to connect to your router external address... the router will then pass it to you PC, and you get the vncconneciton you wanted.... A couple of hints: You now have 2 ports, the one on the router that is forwarded to the one on the PC. These donot have to have the same number! So that you can redirect 5901 on the router to 5900 on PC1, and 5902 on the router to 5900 on PC2. This allows you to setup more than one vnc inside the network. The vnc protocol is open (the definitions are available to anybody) and not dificult to read, so people can (in theory) see what you are doing. Please keep this in mind, since typing a password (like in internet backing), remotetly via vnc over the internet would be extreemely negligent on your part. There are ways to make vnc secure, but that is another topic... Jerry > _______________________________________________ > 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
