On Friday 02 March 2007 21:05, Jean-Louis Dehoux wrote: > Here is the setup: > > 1 Laptop with XP Home with AVG Firewall > 1 Desktop with XP Pro with Windows Firewall > 1 2Wire HomePortal Modem/Router > > I downloaded and installed RealVNC 4.1.2 on both machines and set the > connection port to 5901 on the laptop and 5902 on the desktop. > > On both machines, I opened their respective port in their firewalls and > allowed winvnc.exe to communicate with the outside world. > > On the router, I forwarded incoming traffic on port 5901 to the laptop and > port 5902 to the desktop. > > Using the VNC viewer, the machines see each other when using the local IPs > such as 192.168.0.22:5901 from the desktop to view the laptop and > 192.168.0.23:5902 from the laptop to view the desktop. > > Here where it gets crazy: > > Assume the public IP is 70.70.70.70 (as I would read it from a site such as > WhatIsMyIP.com) > > I can view the laptop from the desktop using 70.70.70.70:5901 > But not the other way around. Aaargh... > > Any idea of what I am doing wrong???
Have you temporarily tried switching off the desktop WinXP firewall? Have you tried to telnet from the laptop to the desktop, port 5092? What are you getting? -- Regards, Mick [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
