Connection Problem

[Angelo Sarto]

Does you boss have windows XP service pack 2 installed?   The default
firewall will block inbound connections for vnc.

additionally if she/he has a router that would block it too.


--Angelo


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:33:29 -0500, JJET7504 <jjet7504 "at" comcast.net> wrote:
> I am new to vnc and was hoping that I could get some help with my problem.
> 
>   I downloaded vnc on my computer at home as well as my boss on his computer
> at his house. He is running window xp profession and I have the xp home.  He
> is able to access my computer and is able to call me into his computer but I
> can not get through to his.  When I pull up VNC Viewer to put his IP address
> my is in there, my IP comes up automatically and I have to delete it and put
> his in (not sure if this might be the cause). Once I have his in and I try to
> connect I get the following everytime.....unable to connect to host -
> connection timed out (10060).   I'm not very computer savy so any help is very
> much appreciated.
> 
>   Many thanks....Tara
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