Phillip:
I'm not that familiar with RealVNC. I know that it can either authenticate
against an existing user or fall back to a password-only authentication. If
you're using the password-only method, you need to specify the password when
you set up the server.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:00 AM
To: 'John Aldrich'
Subject: RE: Connection problems
John,
I'm not trying to connect thru the vpn connection when attempting to
connect with my parents. I did use the link you sent and made sure mine was
correct and I'm getting my dad to run this on his as well. I will let you
know the results. Also do you have to have different passwords for each
connection? Or is it the same one all the time?
Thanks Phillip
-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:48 AM
To: 'Phillip Bennett'
Cc: RealVNC List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Connection problems
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but it sounds like you're
trying to connect to your parents while connected over the VPN. I think that
if you're connected via VPN, you will be unable to connect to your parents.
I have a VPN connection to my office and while I can connect to my PC from
my wife's when we're on the VPN, any internet access goes through the
corporate network when we're on the VPN.
If that is not the case, I apologize for misunderstanding. If you are NOT
connected to the VPN when you're trying to connect to your parents' PC, you
might try making sure can ping their external IP. If you can, then there's a
configuration error somewhere that's causing the VNC session to fail. The
easiest way to make sure that their machine is reachable via the outside
world is to have them go to www.gotomyvnc.com and have them run the checker
there. If it says their machine is reachable, then I'm not sure what the
problem would be, unless you have the wrong IP or something.
Personally, I use a dynamic DNS provider (two of them actually) to make sure
I always know what the external IP of my home network is, so I don't have to
worry about it. :-)
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:41 AM
To: 'John Aldrich'
Subject: RE: Connection problems
John I have disabled and they are using a netgear wireless router. I have
the ports forwarded in the router as well. I was able to get back in to my
work pc this morning but it will not let me even attempt to connect to my
parents. Is it because I already have a connection established thru work? I
have to use a vpn connection with work also. What else can I try?
Thanks Phillip
-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:41 AM
To: 'Phillip Bennett'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Connection problems
Disable the XP firewall on your parent's machine and get them to use a NAT
router instead. It's a heck of a lot more secure anyway!
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Connection problems
Hey everyone I'm having a few issues here. I was able to connect to my
computer @ work today. Then tonight after setting this up on my parents pc I
tried to connect to them. It will let me enter a password but it comes up
with an error message Too many security failures. How do I get around this?
Now I can't even connect to my pc @ work now. I have deleted the registry
entries and reinstalled but it doesn't help. It still remembered my ip
address I was using to connect with. Any help would be appreciated. By the
way all PC's involved are running xp .
Thanks
Phillip Bennett
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