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[Angelo Sarto]

When you are using the client to connect to a port other than 5900 you
need to tell the clinet to use the other port number
standard:  192.168.0.1
vnc on port 999:  192.168.0.1:999

thats a : not a ;

--Angelo


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:06:41 -0400, John Aldrich <jaldrich "at" covista.com> wrote:
> Try port 23... that's the SSH port. If you're not using it, there's a chance
> it'll work.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Brookes [mailto:jonbrookes99 "at" hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:46 PM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: (no subject)
> 
>    Hi all.
>    Need a bit of help with realVNC and port changing.  Like many people I
>    need  to  change  the  default  port  number from 5900 to get around a
>    firewall.
>    However  although  I  can get VNC fine when testing it from a computer
>    at   home,  (which  doesn't  have  a  firewall so using 5900) it works
>    absolutely  fine,  whenever i change the port setting to anything else
>    it won't connect and gives me a 10060 connection timed out error.
> 
>    I  also get the same error if I try changing the port number from 5900
>    even  between 2  computers on my LAN at home, although it will connect
>    fine on 5900.
>    Any  reason  for  this - do i need to change any other settings? All i
>    have  done  is  change  the setting in the server, do i need to change
>    anythiing on the viewer side?
> 
>    Please  note,  I  have  done  all  this  testing  on systems without a
>    firewall  so  far,  so getting around the firewall isn't currently the
>    problem.
> 
>    I  have  so  far tried changing to ports 20, 21, 8080 and 19 and a few
>    random ones.
>    Thanks for any help
>    Jon
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