Router not forwarding VNC

[Vince Teachout]

At 01:15 AM 9/4/03 -0500, Michael Herman wrote:

>You are testing this from within the same LAN?  I tried this as well
>with my SMC router and it didn't work.  After I dug into the SMC docs
>a bit, I found that this (port forwarding) does not work when you try
>to access your external address from an internal address.

Thank you!  A thousand blessings upon your pointy head!  :-)

I've been lurking for weeks, and reading all the web pages and archives I 
could find, trying to find out why I couldn't use vnc through my router.  I 
was SURE I had set port forwarding up correctly, and I was SURE I had the 
external IP address correct, but I could never start the server, then try 
to use the viewer and get the "can't do a loopback" message, which would 
have told me it was working.  It never occurred to me that I couldn't do it 
if I was on the same lan.  Could a buddy up, had him try to vnc in, and it 
worked like a charm from the outside, which is all I cared about.  I wasted 
hours for nothing.  :-(

But.... thanks to your providential posting, all is well!  (Until next 
week, when my Suse Linux install CD arrives, and I go back to trying to 
figure out how to NOT get the grey screen in KDE)

Thank you!

(PS - I apologize for the "pointy head" -- I was just overflowing with joy 
and mirth at that er.... point.)   :-)