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Thread: Port Forwarding, VNC, Hell on Earth..

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    Angry

    I've been trying for a week to come up with a way so that I can set up a VNC server on my home pc so that I can connect to it while I am at work. I have tried everything under the sun and nothing. Maybe someone here can help.

    INFO:

    I am using RealVNC. (Supposedly runs on port 5800)

    I have a brand new Linksys WRT54GS Wireless G router (I thought my old router was unable to port forward so I bought a new one)

    My ISP is Comcast.

    I have in the router's page (192.168.1.1) set TCP protocol to forward port 5800 to this specific machine (192.168.1.101) says enabled and successful.

    - When I start the RealVNC server it says the service is only connected
    to 192.168.1.1 (not my external IP.. SEE
    http://www.realvnc.com/support/portforward.html to see what I mean)

    - I go to http://canyouseeme.org/ to test the port FAILED.

    Instead of Port Forwarding I decide to enable DMZ
    (the more extreme solution) on this machine 192.168.1.101

    - Same results as above

    I then discovered through IP CONFIG /ALL that I have a Dynamic IP

    - I have registered a dynamic dns host at DynDNS (***.dnsalias.net) to
    make my dynamic IP sort-o-static.

    - I'm not sure what to do with this though. I leave my server running on my
    PC and try to go to ***.dnsalias.net:5700 (5700 is the java app for
    realVNC) and it times out. However localhost:5700 brings up the
    java client correctly.


    Anyone have any ideas what I can do so I can VNC to my PC from outside my local network. Or any other way I could get to my home pc, without going through websites that are probably already filtered by my companys filter.


    Lots of Love
    -Slim150
    Last edited by slim150; 11-18-2006 at 03:49 PM.
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    get paid to answer this question:

    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=783781
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    For starters the default port used by realVNC is 5900 not 5800.

    You can get a list of what ports software is listening on by typing netstat -a in a command prompt.
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