Please reply to the list.
You might be able to ping the external interface of your router
from inside, but you can't connect to that through in TCP. At least
personally I've never seen a router which would allow to do so. I'm
told this is to prevent IP spoofing. So, this has nothing to do with
VNC.
So, if you want to test if something's working from outside, you
have to go outside and get in. You see, as like if you want to test
if your door could be open from outside, you really need to get
outside and try it.
Of course, in computer science, there's sometimes some workarounds.
You could ask your friend to try to connect to your public IP
address. If he got the dialog to input password, it works!
Or if you could find some proxy in the Internet, you could also do
the test all by yourself. But the fact is it's easy to find web (ie
HTTP) proxy, but not general proxy.
HTH
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Furqan Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just to find out if I can access the server from internet (offcourse over
> internet I have to use the public ip address of me VNC server). Thanks mate
>
> "Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On the "same network", you mean both the server PC and client PC
> are in the same network address? If yes, then why would you want to
> access VNC using the public IP address?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Furqan Khan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have 2 PCs, both Vista. One has VNC Server installed (User-Mode). Both
>> PCs are connected to an ADSL router. Server is hard wired into router
>> while
>> the other one is wireless. Now, I can access VNC server from wireless PC
>> through pirate ip address but I cant through public ip address. I get
>> error
>> message: failed to connect, connection refused (10061).
>> I have switched off
>> built-in firewalls on both PC and done port forwarding. VNC tests are okay
>> from the website and within software itself. Is it possible to access VNC
>> Server from other PC using public ip (WAN port ip on router) on same
>> network?
>> Thanks,
>> Ali
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