anyone got VNC working on a wireless router?

[John Aldrich]

There's also http://www.gotomyvnc.com which will check to see what ports, if
any, VNC is running on. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Angelo Sarto [mailto:angelosarto "at" gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:45 PM
To: John Aldrich
Cc: hotquietday; Vnc
Subject: Re: anyone got VNC working on a wireless router?


I always remember this one and it has a port check too!

http://www.canyouseeme.org/

--Angelo


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:53:26 -0500, John Aldrich <JAldrich "at" covista.com>
wrote:
> No, I would suggest you visit http://www.whatismyip.com and have him
connect
> to THAT address, as both the "192.168.x.x" and "169.254.249.x" are
> "reserved" IP addresses for use on a LAN and do not travel over the
> internet. that being said, I believe the 169 address is the default
address
> on Microsoft products when an adapter can't get an IP address. What you'll
> need to do somehow, is find out what your external IP address is from your
> ISP. The website I mentioned earlier (and there are others like it, that's
> just the only one *I* know by heart! <G>) will tell you that.
>         John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hotquietday [mailto:hotquietday2 "at" yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: Jim; Vnc
> Subject: RE: anyone got VNC working on a wireless router?
> 
> > Port 5500 has something to do with the
> > whole process but I don't know
> > exactly what. The manual claims it needs it
> > to actively listen for a
> > viewer connection. I know I could not get
> > it to work without forwarding
> > it as well
> >
> > 5800 and 5900 have to do with actually
> > running it. Sending and receiving
> > the actual information.
> 
> Jim, thanks.
> 
> I am now forwarding all 3 ports you suggested to
> 192.168.0.2.  My friend is still getting an unable to
> connect to host error.
> 
> Here is the output of "ipconfig".  Should I be using
> 169.254.249.99 instead?
> 
> Ethernet adapter Network Bridge (Network Bridge):
> 
>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>         Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . :
> 169.254.249.99
>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 255.255.0.0
>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> 
> Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:
> 
>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 192.168.0.2
>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 255.255.255.0
>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> 192.168.0.1
> 
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