Issue with connecting to Vnc via router.

[James Weatherall]

Scott,

Unless there is something wrong with LAN's access to the Internet, your
statement regarding access to servers is incorrect.  The router should
respond on its external (WAN/Internet) IP address even within the LAN.

Your statement regarding "router logon box"s is also incorrect, I think.
Routers should only serve their configuration interface (assuming it is HTTP
based), on their LAN address, and not via their WAN address.

So, to clarify:

- XXXX.myserver.org should work from both the Internet and the LAN.
- You should only see the router's configuration pages if you browse to its
LAN address (probably 192.168.0.1 or similar).

It sounds as though the routers discussed here are broken in that they
regard traffic for their WAN address as equivalent to traffic for their LAN
address, when received on the LAN interface.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Scott C. Best
> Sent: 30 November 2004 19:30
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: server "at" gravesendageconcern.co.uk
> Subject: Re: Issue with connecting to Vnc via router.
> 
> Mark:
> 
>  	Heya. You will get "error 10061" if you try to connect 
> via port-forwarding to a VNC Server on your LAN from a VNC 
> Viewer that's *also* on the same LAN. That is, the port 
> forwarding you did for ports 5800 and 5900 will work for 
> everywhere on the Internet (like where GoToMyVNC connects 
> from) *except* for on your LAN. On your LAN, you'll have to 
> use the "LAN address" (eg, 192.168.x.y) rather than the 
> XXXX.myserver.org address.
> 
>  	Also, if you open a web-browser to "XXXX.myserver.org"
> you should get the "router logon box". To get to the VNC 
> Server via a web-browser (again from *outside* of your LAN) 
> you'll have to use "XXXX.myserver.org:5800".
> 
>  	Hope that helps!
> 
> -Scott
> 
> >  I am having issues similar to many people that I have read here, I 
> > have an Edimax Router/hub and a Dynamic IP address. I am using 
> > myserver.org to obtain an effective static IP address, I have 
> > configured the router to port forward 5800 and 5900 to 5800 
> and 5900 
> > on a machine on the LAN side of the router, I can access the Vnc 
> > server via a vnc viewer on another machine on the network. 
> When I try 
> > to goto the website address of XXXX.myserver.org:0 it comes 
> up with a 
> > connection error of 10061 which means it is not even getting to the 
> > password authentication. If I got to XXXX.myserver.org it comes up 
> > with my router logon box, so not sure whats going on here. 
> I went to 
> > gotomyvnc.com and confirmed that the port of 5900 is open
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