Worked once, now won't work

[Ketan Parikh]

OK but have you unblocked ports 5800 and port 5900 on it. Firewalls 
generally tend to block ports 5900 and 5800 which are to with VNC.

Ketan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Harris" <gr810r "at" comcast.net>
To: "Ketan Parikh" <khp "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: Worked once, now won't work


> Forgot to say that yes, I am running Zone Alarm on the ME machine, but I
> added my laptop to the trusted items just to be sure, and as I said, it
> worked like a charm the first day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ketan Parikh [mailto:khp "at" realvnc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:43 AM
> To: gr810r "at" comcast.net
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Worked once, now won't work
>
>
> Gene,
>
> Any Firewalls on the machines? Can you ping the IP address of the Windows 
> ME
> machine?
>
> Ketan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Harris" <gr810r "at" comcast.net>
> To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: Worked once, now won't work
>
>
>> Just downloaded Free VNC server on my home computer running Windows ME,
>> and
>> VNC viewer on my laptop at work running XP.  Tried connecting to my home
>> computer the first day, and it worked fine multiple times.  Thereafter it
>> hasn't worked.  I get a window that says "attempting to connect to host"
>> and
>> after about 15 seconds I get a message saying "unable to connect to host:
>> Connection timed out (10600)"
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Gene
>>
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