Russell:
Heya. Tackling your many questions:
1. To access your VNC Server at home, the one behind your LinkSys, you'll need to setup port-forwarding on and dynamic-DNS on your network. Some details about that here:
http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/63.html
An alternative to port-forwarding and dynamic-DNS is provided by the Kaboodle application, which is mentioned in this list of "3rd party" tools for using VNC:
http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/114.html
2. If you cannot connect the VNC Viewer on your laptop to the VNC Server on your desktop, while the two PC's are on the same LAN, you won't be able to get #1 working either. Please check the firewall settings on your WinXP computer to be sure it's not blocking the connection (see the first URL for details on that, too). Otherwise, yes: open the VNC Viewer and put the IP address (eg, 192.168.1.100) of the VNC Server into the box. Or you can use one of the "3rd party" tools described in the second URL. Those tools help you "find" VNC Servers on your LAN and initiate connections to them, without worrying about IP numbers.
3. As for connecting to your PC when no one's logged on, you need to simply run the VNC Server as a "Windows Service", rather than as a "Windows application". You can read the details about that in the VNC documentation:
http://www.realvnc.com/v4/winvnc.html#3
Hope this helps getting you started!
cheers, Scott
I downloaded your VNC program (the free one) to my two computers the other day. However, after carefully reading the documentation, I am still unable to connect my two computers together.
I have a desktop and a laptop, both of which are running Windows XP Professional. I am on a home network (there are a total of four computers in the house), so each computer is connected through a router (Linksys WRT54G). I have no trouble using Window's Remote Desktop to connect my laptop to my desktop when I am in my home, yet I am unable to connect when I am offsite (such as at school, where I have a wireless connection available). I am planning a trip for later this month, and would really like to be able to access my desktop at home. So, let me ask you a couple of questions.
For the purpose of connecting my laptop to my desktop, which is the server and which is the viewer? I am assuming the server is my desktop and the viewer is the laptop. If this is true, how do I configure each one?
When I am through using my desktop I log off, but leave the computer running. Must I be logged in (and leave it that way) if I want to remotely access the computer? I wouldn't think so.
My desktop's IP address is 192.168.1.100. When I open the viewer on my laptop, is this what I put in the dialog box? I tired it and got a "timed out msg" Remember, I am doing this at home. I haven't tried to test it offsite.
My router's IP address is 192.168.1.1 and my laptop's is 192.168.1.103. Must I input those IP addresses anywhere during set up?
I have left everything else (connection port is 5900, Serve Java viewer port on 5800, etc) defaulted to how it was set up when I loaded the program.
Please instruct me in as much detail as possible how to configure my two computers so they can talk to each other when I am away. Thank you.
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