Re: Cable modem connection

2005-11-26 Thread Doyal McVicker
Dear Mr. Smith, I would like to relate my experience with high speed cable service. I support a friend 3000 miles away in AZ, They moved from DSL to Cable and I encountered a problem. What I found was that the cable company did not have a routable IP address assigned. IE: the dynamic addres

Re: Using VNC on Linux

2005-11-26 Thread Paulo
Em Sabado 26 Novembro 2005 20:10, o Marc Chamberlin wrote: > Hi - Newcomer here and apologizes in advance if this has been asked > before... Tried a search of the archives but perhaps I wasnt using good > keywords > > I want to be able to help my Dad remotely using VNC but we have a > difficult

Re: Cable modem connection

2005-11-26 Thread B. Scott Smith
Yes, opening up ports 5800 & 5900 will do the trick. They can go to http://myipaddress.com to get their "real" IP address. Dermie wrote: I am the unofficial IT person for my parent's computer. We live a half hour apart, so I use VNC to do minor work to their computer from my house. Currently

Cable modem connection

2005-11-26 Thread Dermie
I am the unofficial IT person for my parent's computer. We live a half hour apart, so I use VNC to do minor work to their computer from my house. Currently they have dialup and connection is fairly easy since I have taught them to provide me with their current IP address using ipconfig. They a

Re: Connect through a linksys router

2005-11-26 Thread Shobuz99
Mike, Thank you for the help. I will try it when I get back to the office on monday. Also thanks to Norbert for the help as well. I'll post here and let you know when it works for me. Thanks again.. Shobuz --- Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Shobuz99 wrote: > > >

Using VNC on Linux

2005-11-26 Thread Marc Chamberlin
Hi - Newcomer here and apologizes in advance if this has been asked before... Tried a search of the archives but perhaps I wasnt using good keywords I want to be able to help my Dad remotely using VNC but we have a difficulty that I am not sure how to solve... His computer is located on a

Re: Connect through a linksys router

2005-11-26 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Shobuz99 wrote: Although not a total newbie to VNC (used since 1998); I am new to connecting to a VNC server through a router and am not quite sure I understand the process. For example, I run VNC (3.3.7) server on my office machine, that is connected to a router. The IP

Connect through a linksys router

2005-11-26 Thread Shobuz99
Hello, Although not a total newbie to VNC (used since 1998); I am new to connecting to a VNC server through a router and am not quite sure I understand the process. For example, I run VNC (3.3.7) server on my office machine, that is connected to a router. The IP address says 192.168.100.1 (fictio

RE: AltGr - any solutions?

2005-11-26 Thread James Weatherall
Michael, You should find that things work if you run VNC 4.1.1 at both ends. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Stoll > Sent: 25 November 2005 22:45 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: AltGr -

error 10053 and zone alarm firewall

2005-11-26 Thread tbcbbq
two problems: We are using zone alarm 5.5 and my friend has to close it for me to be able to log on to his machine. once i do get on after he dumps zone alarm, i keep getting an 'read:connection aborted (error 10053)". I reconnect and everything is as it was, but it is a pain cuz it