Connecting to workstations on a '192.168.x.x' network

Angelo Sarto angelosarto "at" gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 18:57:00 2004


e.g.  

publicIP:5901 - PC1IP:5900
publicIP:5902 - PC2IP:5900
publicIP:5903 - PC3IP:5900
publicIP:5904 - PC4IP:5900
publicIP:5905 - PC5IP:5900

--Angelo

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:18:39 -0800, geofgibson <geofgibson "at" cox.net> wrote:
> Direct answer - you can't.
> You need to change your network topology.  Basically, you allocate static
> addresses to the computers on your LAN.  You then set up your router to
> direct traffic from specific ports to specific computers.  This also allows
> you to do things like run VNC servers and still use MS Remote Desktop
> protocol on the same LAN.
> I do it on my LAN and it works smashingly.
> 
> Geof Gibson - geofgibson "at" cox.net
>   Apple Certified Portable Technician Registered Linux User 319068
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> Behalf Of David Strickson
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:25 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Connecting to workstations on a '192.168.x.x' network
> 
> I have successfully got VNC to connect to the server on a remote network
> by opening up port 5900 on the firewall.
> 
> How do I now go about configuring it so that I can access individual
> client PCs on the network as they have their IP addresses assigned
> dynamically.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
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