My cable access provider has closed port 80, suggests I use 8080. Can you please give specific directions on how to do that for the VNC server, and how I would enter the URL in a browser?
> From: "Scott C. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: No remote access? > > Gregg: > > Heya. Some quick comments: > >> 2) Let's see here: >> - - I don't think i can put a computer on the unprotected (WAN) side of the >> firewall, by defualt my routeer forces everthing behind the firewall. >> - - I put my PC directly on the net w/o the router/firewall and i still got >> a >> "ReadExact: Socket error while reading." error message. So i guess it's not >> my firewall. >> >> 3) We actually use VNC at my work on multiple computers on our network so >> i'm pretty sure that port isn't being blocked. > > As per #2, we agree that your home firewall isn't causing > the problem. But as for #3...keep in mind that your workplace firewall > doesn't try to filter any traffic until it *leaves* your workplace > LAN. So...intra-LAN, VNC sessions would never see a firewall, and > so you'd expect them to work. This sorta confirms that it *is* your > workplace firewall that's refusing to allow the outgoing connections. > >> As for changing the VNC >> server listening port, i'm not exactly sure about how i'd go about that. > > > In case you didn't see it, it was bit further down in the > same Digest version your email was in: > > > | Using regedit, you can enter the port number directly without any of the > | arithmetic. The keys/values you want are: > | > | [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3] > | "AutoPortSelect"=dword:00000000 > | "PortNumber"=dword:00000015 > | > | The PortNumber value, 15, is hexadecimal for 21 which you can enter as > | 21 when you use regedit. As a sanity check, after you enter these, you > | will see that the VNC server properties show 4294961417 for the display > | number. > > Good luck! > > -Scott > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
