port mapping and VNCviewer

[Vince LaMonica]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Jonathan Morton wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

} But the PCs can only see the 192.168.0.* addresses, because that's what
} subnet they are on.  If you connect using 192.168.0.3:5922 (by entering 22
} n the display field) it should work.

Yes, it does work using the 192.168.0.3:5922 ; I guess common sense was
sacrificed by staying up all night [unrelated problem]. :) I should have
known that it wouldn't see the real IP [since the router is the same
machine..though i'm still a bit fuzzy on that - i can ftp to the external
IP from the 192.168.0.* subnet].

} So, on the Mac, you are entering 1.2.3.4:3333.  Depending on how your
} TCP/IP is set up, and how Open Transport works, that may or may not be
} visible to your own machine (strange or what?).  Try 127.0.0.1:3333
} (localhost), and if that works, that's your problem and nowt can be done
} about it.  In any case, I'd recommend using the 192.168.0.3:5922 from the
} Mac anyway, as that's the shortest path.

I'm now at work, and attempted to run the VNC viewer and pointed it to
1.2.3.4:3333 and it worked! So I guess the problem was that I was trying
to access 1.2.3.4:3333 from 1.2.3.4. Since I can access 192.168.0.* from
1.2.3.4 that is all that matters [i just wanted to make sure that I could
access my semi-internal network from the outside, so i thought i'd test it
from my only 'outside' computer - 1.2.3.4].

} >Any enlightenment would be appreciated...
} 
} It's a pleasure :).

Thanks!

/vjl/ [in desperate need of caffeine]


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