No remote access?

[Ed Schwartz]

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" <sbest "at" best.com>
> Reply-To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
> Cc: <getsome831 "at" hotmail.com>
> 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
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