Need help connecting via Internet

[John Aldrich]

Your router at home is probably blocking the connection. You need to enable
at least ports 5901 and/or 5801 through your router and point it to your
machine at home. Once you do that, it *should* work. I would suggest,
though, that running VNC and having that port open to the outside world is
asking for hackers to take over your PC. What I'd suggest is using some sort
of tunneling protocol (you'll have to install some sort of software on both
ends) to make an encrypted tunnel and only allow THAT protocol access to
your PC at home. Once you've created the secure tunnel, you can use that
tunnel to access your PC using VNC.. there's some nice "how-to" docs at
http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/28.html
	John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian McDowell [mailto:mackersbt6 "at" mailblocks.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:40 AM
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Need help connecting via Internet


I may be missing something very simple here as I'm kinda a noob to VNC 
but I am trying to connect to one of my home pcs via the internet from 
my Pc in work, however I have a router at home.  Now I know what my 
external IP address is for the router and I know what my internal IP is 
for the PC I'm trying to connect to, however I don't know how to get 
the viewer on my work pc to connect with my home pc.  Is there a simple 
way of telling the viewer to first connect to the external IP then to 
the Internal IP or am I missing something Can anyone please help?

I have VNC working between my 2 networked PCs really easily using the 
internal IP addresses, I just don't know how to connect from an 
external PC.

Thanks

Ian
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