To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No remote access?
1) Yes, i am using the address on the WAN side of my firewall and yes, my RT314 does NAT between a private network and a single public address. I've also successfully setup the port forwarding previously w/ an ftp server, irc dcc sends, etc. 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 for changing the VNC server listening port, i'm not exactly sure about how i'd go about that. Any other comments/questions that might lead me anywhere? thanks, -gregg I don't have a solution for you but rather some questions which, if you can answer them, may help you get closer to a solution. 1) First, the easy one ... from the client at work, when you tell the viewer what to connect to, you are using the IP address of the WAN side of your home firewall, aren't you? (Not the address of the VNC server on your private network.) I'm guessing that the RT314 works the way my SMC Barricade and Linksys Router do, namely, it does NAT between a private network and a single public address. Since your home network is a private network, you can't get to it from your work. You have to talk to the public (WAN) side of your home firewall and let the firewall forward it to the VNC server on the private network. 2) Is it a problem with your home firewall or something else? - If you put a computer on the unprotected (WAN) side of the firewall, can it connect to the VNC server through the firewall? If so, the problem is not in your home firewall configuration / capabilities. - If you remove the firewall from the mix, i.e., put the VNC server unprotected on the net, can you connect to it from work? If so, your problem is in your home firewall. 3) Is a firewall at work blocking outbound connections on 5900? - If you change the VNC server to listen on port 80, e.g., can you get to it? Set the VNC server to use display number 4294961476 (sic ... that number is 2^32-5900+80) and when you bring up the viewer, tell it that the VNC server is "ip-address-of-firewall:4294961476". Don't forget to tell your firewall at home to redirect port 80 to the VNC server. Good luck, JRE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregg Waltz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:14 AM Subject: No remote access? > I don't have any problem connecting locally to either one of my machines > (back and forth), but if i try to connect from work or some other domain i'm > not able to connect. I am running behind a firewall (Netgear RT314) but i'm > forwarding ports 5900 & 5901 to my local machines respectively, why do i > keep coming up with the "Failed to Connect to Server" errors? What could be > my problem(s) here? > > Thanks, > > -gregg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
