Let me try some ascii art here... :-)
/5900 ->PC1:5900
Internet ->Router
\5901 ->PC2:5900
Does that make sense?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:47 AM
To: 'Simen Lxland'; John Aldrich
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
Simon:
You configure the display number in the viewer. You connect on port 5901 to
the *router* which forwards it to port 5900 on *PC2*.
-----Original Message-----
From: Simen Lxland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:45 AM
To: John Aldrich
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
But what about:
Is there no need to configure display number in VNC? How can VNC
differ from the different ports when I connect using the vnc-viewer?
On 11/10/05, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ahh.. yes. ZA would be an issue. You should add winvnc4.exe as an
exception
> to *always* be granted.
> As for the public/private ports, yes. 5901 "public" and 5900 "private" for
> pc2 would work just fine. The reason you can't have port 5900 for both is
> that you have the same external IP for both machines (unless you've got
some
> sort of subnet we dont' know about, and then you could have two different
IP
> addresses... but 99% of the people here trying to access "home" from
"work"
> dont' have that setup! <Grin>) and your router would likely not be able to
> figure out where to send the network traffic if you tried to configure
both
> machines to use 5900 externally/publicly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simen Lxland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:35 AM
> To: John Aldrich
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
>
>
> One thing i can think of is a Zone Alarm pop-up on my pc2 at home
> which needs to be granted access before i can get through from work. I
> will check later today.
>
> Is there no need to configure display number in VNC? How can VNC
> differ from the different ports?
>
> Can you answer this?
> In my Dlink routher DI624+ i beleive the public port is the 5901 port
> and the private port is the 5900 when forwarding on pc2. On my other pc I
> have 5900 on both public and private.
>
> On 11/10/05, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Simon:
> > I'd say you should put redirectme.net:1 in the viewer at work. All
things
> > considered, though, it *should* have worked all along. Don't know why it
> > didn't work, though. You can also try it as :xxx.redirectme.net::5901
and
> > see if that makes any difference. (Note the double ":")
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simen Lxland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:28 AM
> > To: John Aldrich
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
> >
> >
> > OK, thanx! Ill try!
> >
> > But where do i specfi the port :1 (redirectme.net:1)? In the viewer of
> > the machine i use at work or at the server for pc2 (since pc1 works
> > fine already).
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/10/05, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'll be honest with you... I've never had to use the web client. That
> > being
> > > said, if you're going to use the browser to view your desktops, you
> should
> > > probably open the 580x ports as well, forwarding them to the
appropriate
> > > system, unless you're using the paid-for version of RealVNC which
allows
> > you
> > > to use a single port for both Java and VNC client.
> > > Also, you shouldn't need two separate machine names on no-ip -- just
> > > different display numbers on the same "machine name" as long as they
> share
> > > an internet connection. If you check, I think you'll find that
> > > xxx.redirectme.net and xxx1.redirectme.net are the same IP address.
So,
> > you
> > > should ONLY have to use xxx.redirectme.net and xxx.redirectme.net:1.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Simen Lxland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:20 AM
> > > To: John Aldrich
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
> > >
> > >
> > > Do I have to do anything about the display number?
> > >
> > > Or should it be enough using vncviewer as this to connect to either:
> > >
> > > http://xxx.redirectme.net -> pc1
> > > http://xxx1.redirectme.net ->
> > >
> > > In my Dlink routher DI624+ i beleive the public port is the 5901 port
> > > and the private port is the 5900 when forwarding. On my other pc I
> > > have 5900 on both public and private.
> > >
> > > On 11/10/05, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Well, what *seems* to be the recommended action is to forward port
> 5900
> > to
> > > > PC1's port 5900, forward port 5901 to PC2's Port 5900, and so on.
That
> > way
> > > > you get a unique port on the router for each PC, but you don't have
to
> > > > change the default ports on the individual PCs. You *can* do a
> > > > straight-through port-to-port mapping, but that seems more work than
> is
> > > > strictly necessary to me. :-)
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Behalf Of Simen Lxland
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:42 AM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Fwd: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > One more question!
> > > >
> > > > Do I have to change the connection port on each server? Today on pc1
i
> > > > use port 5900 and on pc2 i use 5901 or should the ports be the same?
> > > > Should I change the display number on each server?
> > > >
> > > > Should my port forwarding on my router be TCP 5900 only or TCP 5900
> > > > and TCP 5901?
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: Simen Lxland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Date: 11-Oct-2005 11:54
> > > > Subject: RealVNC questions about ports and display number
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have two pc's on my LAN and are trying to connect to them from
work.
> > > > I have set up both with static DCHP-adresses, I have mapped the port
> > > > forwarding (5900 for pc1 and 5901 for pc two) in my router (Dlink
> > > > DI-624+) and made sure the firewall in the router is accepting these
> > > > ports. I use ZoneAlarm on both pc's. I have set up VNC-server as a
> > > > service on both pc's. I use No-ip client on both,
> > > > http://xxx.redirectme.net on pc1 and http://xxx1.redirectme.net on
> > > > pc2.
> > > >
> > > > I manage to connect to pc one with the vnc-viewer at my work. But
when
> > > > I try to connect to pc two i get timeout.....
> > > >
> > > > I try this url to connect to: http://xxx1.redirectme.net:5091 and
> > > > http://xxx1.redirectme.net:1 - is this right or wrong?
> > > >
> > > > What do i have to do to get this to work- seems a bit strange to me
> > > > why i can connect to pc1 but not to pc2......
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Qtip
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