Worked once, now won't work

Ketan Parikh khp "at" realvnc.com
Thu Apr 14 16:18:41 2005


Gene,

That shows that there is no network connectivity between  you ME machine and 
your laptop. What IP are you trying to connect to?

Ketan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Harris" <gr810r "at" comcast.net>
To: "Ketan Parikh" <khp "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: Worked once, now won't work


>I haven't done anything to Zone Alarm re ports 5800 and 5900, but it still
> worked the first time.
>
> Pinging my ME machine's IP address, I get the following:
>
> "Request timed out" (4 times)
> "Ping statistics for [IP address]:
>    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)"
>
> Thanks for your help, by the way.
>
> Gene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ketan Parikh [mailto:khp "at" realvnc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:49 AM
> To: gr810r "at" comcast.net; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Worked once, now won't work
>
>
> 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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