When you are using the client to connect to a port other than 5900 you need to tell the clinet to use the other port number standard: 192.168.0.1 vnc on port 999: 192.168.0.1:999
thats a : not a ; --Angelo On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:06:41 -0400, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try port 23... that's the SSH port. If you're not using it, there's a chance > it'll work. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Brookes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (no subject) > > Hi all. > Need a bit of help with realVNC and port changing. Like many people I > need to change the default port number from 5900 to get around a > firewall. > However although I can get VNC fine when testing it from a computer > at home, (which doesn't have a firewall so using 5900) it works > absolutely fine, whenever i change the port setting to anything else > it won't connect and gives me a 10060 connection timed out error. > > I also get the same error if I try changing the port number from 5900 > even between 2 computers on my LAN at home, although it will connect > fine on 5900. > Any reason for this - do i need to change any other settings? All i > have done is change the setting in the server, do i need to change > anythiing on the viewer side? > > Please note, I have done all this testing on systems without a > firewall so far, so getting around the firewall isn't currently the > problem. > > I have so far tried changing to ports 20, 21, 8080 and 19 and a few > random ones. > Thanks for any help > Jon > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
