Timeout problems attempting to access my VNC server from behind a router

[Scott C. Best]

CC:

 	Heya. The problem is not so much that you're running the
VNC Viewer from behind a router, but that your target VNC Server
(i.e., the PC at school) is behind a router.

 	You can find most everything you need to know about accessing
a VNC Server that's behind a router here:

http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/63.html

 	Hope that helps!

-Scott

> Hi, I'm a newbie at this stuff, so please forgive me if this problem
> is obvious.  I've searched through the past threads and didn't find
> much pertinent information.
>
> I set up TightVNC on my school computer (on the school network).  My
> roommate had no problems accessing my computer using her web browser
> as the viewer.
>
> However, I wasn't able to access the server from my home
> computer--either by using http://myip:5800 or by using the TightVNC
> Viewer.  Also, I tried to ping and to telnet to my school computer's
> IP and was unsucessful.  In each of these cases, it said that the
> connection had timed out.  Incidentally or not, I tried using
> http://www.canyouseeme.org/ to check ports 5800 and 5900 and it also
> gave the message "connection timed out".
>
> I don't think that it was problems with the server machine because I
> asked a friend of mine (who isn't on the school server) to try to
> access it using his web browser, and he was successful.
>
> I hope you can shed some light on this problem and perhaps give me
> some tips as to what to do.
>
> Thanks,
> CC