Thanks Lyle. That is exactly how it works for me now. With the DMZ host
turned on ALL ports automatically get forwarded to my private IP from the
router. What I am trying to do is to just forward the ports needed for VNC
and turn off the DMZ feature leaving the rest of my ports secure.
I have tried every range of ports I can think of (and read about thus far)
and none seem to work.
At 09:11 PM 2/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>The only issue I can think of right off hand is that you have to connect to
>the public IP address of the router. For instance, your router has a
>public(Internet) address of 209.172.152.101 and your internal machine is
>192.168.0.50. Then you would try to VNC to 209.172.152.101:5900 (or :5800
>from a browser). And the router should be forwarding ports 5800 & 5900 to
>192.168.0.50.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 8:55 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Firewall question..
>
>
>New subscriber here (thanks for the idea David!!). VNC has worked well for
>me so far but for one issue. I cannot get my Linksys router to forward
>ports properly through its firewall. I am forwarding port 5800 and 5900 to
>the static internal IP of my machine, but no matter what I do I cannot get
>it to work from the outside.
>
>I have enabled Remote Administration of the router, so I can go in and
>manually put my machine in the DMZ from the outside world, and then access
>VNC just fine either with through the web server or the VNC
>client. Obviously, this leaves me wide open to the rest of the world and I
>already had a problem getting hacked when I forgot and left my machine in
>the DMZ for a long period of time. Came home that day to find Norton had
>stopped a virus (actually a trojan) from an unknown source.
>
>I should add that I am currently running a Windows ME machine as the
>server, and my workstation at work is running NT 4 SP5.
>
>TIA
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