Most routers will support port forwarding (also called pinholes). Your manual should tell you how to open the particular ports you need and forward them to particular machines on the LAN.
If you are working with Windows, hovering the cursor over the VNC icon will report the internal IP address - such as 192.168.0.1, .2, etc. You just forward the ports on the router to the particular machine based on it's internal address. For example, I have a Cayman router. It lets me forward ports as follows; Machine Start port End port Protocol IP Internal port Machine 1 5800 5800 tcp/ip 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 Machine 1a 5900 5900 tcp/ip 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 Machine 2 5801 5801 tcp/ip 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 Machine 2a 5901 5901 tcp/ip 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 (There are only two machines listed above - don't know why Cayman makes you do it this way instead of one listing with start and end ports on the same line, but they do. Machine 1 and Machine 1a are the same machine - another oddity of the way Cayman has it set up. My Netgear router is slightly different, but you get the idea. I think I remember Linksys being somewhat more obvious, but I don't have one handy to check just now. On each machine, you then go to the VNC icon (assuming you are running it as a service), select properties, and un-check the auto selection and instead specify the particular port that it will be listening on. For example, Machine 2's VNC will be set to listen on 2. Seems a little peculiar, but it works fine. HTH! At 12:44 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote: >I'm a newbie so please bear with me. I have an internal network behind >a router. I haven't found any down to earth english way to do this. I >am very fimilar with LAN's, but not WAN's. How do I get to the >internal IP address? > >===== >Carl W. Foreman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of >your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com >or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
