do you have an internet ip? or does your router ip masquerade for
your office? if the latter there must be something like port mapping
on the router to allow you to connect to the work PC. Am I making
sense? Hope I do and it is helpful.
On 30 Jun 2001, at 13:24, Mary Sweat wrote:
> Also new to the list and not really "technically minded". But having a
> similar problem. Attempting to connect to my workstation from home.
>
> Home PC running VNC 3.3.3R9 on a WIN98 OSR2 platform with a dialup
> connection. Workstation running same version VNC on WinME via TCP/IP
> connection running through a router. I have the IP's for the router and
> the workstation. Cannot ping or telnet to either. However the workstation
> can ping and telnet to the home pc and can connect with VNC. I've read the
> FAQ and the archives and experimented with various settings...can't find the
> problem.
>
> Help anyone?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Tapley
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:09 PM
> To: vnc-list
> Subject: "Failed to Connect to Server"
>
>
> Hi- I'm new to the list and new to VNC. Not "REAL" technical minded but I'm
> having a problem using VNC. Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
> I
> am attempting to use VNC on 3 seperate computers. Details of the
> configurations follow:
>
> 1. Computer 1 is a Win2K Server w/ a DSL connection , static IP address,
> through a DSL router, running VNC Server. (seperate location from Compters 2
> and 3)
>
> 2. Compter 2 is a WinME computer w/ a DSL connection, static IP address,
> also
> connected to an internal network running ICS (via 2 NIC's), also running VNC
> Server, as well as Tiny Personal Firewall
>
> 3. Computer 3 is a WinME computer attached to Computer #2 via home
> networking
> wizard & sharing the internet connection with #2. No firewall on this
> machine.
> Not running VNC Server, but has the viewer installed.
>
> My problem is this...
>
> I am able to connect to Computer 1 from both Computers 2 and 3. I am also
> able
> to connect to Computer 2 from Computer 3 using only the static IP (the one
> connected to the internet) as the host address. I am, however, unable to
> connect to Computer 2 from Computer 1. I have made attempts with the
> firewall
> turned off and on, and have given access priviledges to VNC in TPF's
> configuration. Either way, I get the same "Failed to Connect to Server"
> message when I attempt to logon.
>
> My thought is that perhaps it "might" have something to do with Home
> Networking/ ICS as Computer 2 shows both IP addresses when hovering over the
> VNC Server icon. It shows the addresses with the internal IP first and
> seperated by a comma. I have attempted several combinations of logging on
> swapping the order of the IP's, using only the static IP, using colon
> instead
> of comma, space after comma, no space after comma, etc to no avail. Is it
> likely that this is indeed the problem and does someone know a workaround?
> i.e. unregistering the internal IP from VNC in the registry or something
> like
> that.
>
> Or are there other things I should be looking at? I'm stumped.
>
> Again, any feedback/ advice at all would be GREATLY appreciated. I think
> it's
> a great technology- just wish I could get it to work on both ends, and I'm
> sure it must be something I'm doing/ not doing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Jeff Tapley
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