Router not forwarding VNC

[Jerry Westrick]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:52, Vince Teachout wrote:
> 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)
> 
When you get your SuSE (auuming 8.2) try reading 
Try reading /usr/share/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html

It tells you how to install vnc under inetd, works like a charm!

Jerry

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