ports?

[Phil Reynolds]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:08:01PM -0700, paul@taperfriendly.com wrote:
> I want to connect to my home computer which is behind a router.
> 
> I need to know what ports to forward from my router to the machine I want to
> connect to.  I know this question must have been asked before, but I
> couldn't find an answer to this in the archive.

For each machine, 5800+displaynumber for the Java viewer and
5900+displaynumber (regardless of viewer).

> to make this an even trickier question - can I connect to 2 different
> computers on my home network?

Yes, if either your router can change the port, so that router:5900
points to machine1:5900 and router:5901 points to machine2:5900 or you
make sure that both machines are on different display numbers (you can
configure this option in the server) and just forward the appropriate
port to the appropriate machine.

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