Trouble connecting

Scott C. Best sbest "at" best.com
Wed Dec 14 01:12:01 2005


Theo:

 	Heya. So if you run the scan at http://www.GoToMyVNC.com from
the PC you've setup the port-forwarding to...what's the result? If it
doesn't detect your VNC Server, either the port-forwarding rule or the
firewall-exception rule on your VNC Server PC still needs adjusting.

cheers,
Scott

>> "when connecting from the WAN"
> I use the public IP address of our edge router from a computer outside of
> our LAN
>
>> Are you actually connecting from a machine on the same LAN, but using the
>> WAN IP address of the router?
> When 'inside', I use the LAN address of the server from a client on the same
> LAN
>
>> What do you mean by "I am seeing the router forward the proper port"
> What that I mean that I see the following firewall rule fire:
> Sat, 2005-12-10 20:28:05 - TCP packet - Source: outside computer address -
> Destination: WAN address of edge router -[Service access request successful
> Src 1164 Dst 5901 from WAN]
>
> This rule is a port forwarding rule that forwards a TCP request to the LAN
> address that I can successfully connect to when on the 'inside'.
>
> Theo
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