Port forwarding problems

[Scott C. Best]

Ben:

 	Heya. When you use the standalone VNC Viewer (i.e., not
the Java Viewer), and you connect using the form:

 	router.external.ip.address::8082

 	...what error message do you see? Also, when you're at
a location "where this port is not firewalled", do you see
the same error message?

 	I suspect that the firewall which is "blocking" your
VNC Viewer connections to port 5900 is blocking all non-HTTP
traffic as well. If so, running the VNC Server on TCP-443
(and port-forwarding 443) is your best bet.

hope that helps,
Scott

> I have searched through the archives and have not found any answers
> for the problems I am having. I have a machine on my lan that where
> VNC is running on that standard ports. I have forwarded 8082 to port
> 5900 and 8083 to port 5800 (Because I am behind at firewall at my work
> and unable to get out on other ports). I am able to access the java
> viewer just fine on 8083, but when I try to connect with either it or
> the VNC client, my connection times out. I'm not sure if this is my
> router's problem, or VNC's problem. I also forwarded 5900 to 5900 and
> when I am at a location where this port is not firewalled, it works
> great. (So its clear that my router does some forwarding sucessfully).
> I also tried entering my ip and all the combinations of a double
> colon, a single colon, the port 2182 (the display port), 8082, and
> 8083.
>
> Thank you all for the help.