Can't Connect to VNC Server Personal Edition

[Malcolm Lalkaka]

On 9/25/05, Stephen Watkins <swatkins02 "at" earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am struggling to get VNC Server working I've tried everything I can think
> of.
>
> I am using the current versions of Personal Edition 4.1.2 VNC viewer and
> server.  I purchased one license for the server.  Server is installed on a
> WinXP SP2 box with Norton Internet Security and an Actiontec DSL router.  I
> configured the Server to run in User Mode and I can telnet into 5900 and get
> the RFB message back.  I setup the router to allow port forwarding on the
> local IP number port 5900.  I cannot connect to the WAN IP number of the
> Server machine using VNC Viewer.  I can't even ping that address at all from
> my viewer machine.  My viewer machine is also WinXP with SP2 and a Linksys
> router.
>
> I've tried a number of things to get it to work and nothing helps.  I turned
> off the WinXP firewall.  I set the router firewall to basic which is just
> NAT only.  I turned off all the various features of Norton Internet
> Security.  I switched from service mode to user mode for the VNC server.  I
> tried configuring the router in DMZ mode.  I've read through this list for
> September.
>
> Any other ideas?  Thank you very much.

>From what I understood, you have two routers: one on the server side,
and one on the client side, am I correct? In that case, did you
forward ports on both routers? If you didn't, then that is probably
the problem. Also, if you are using the Java VNC viewer, then the
server doesn't use port 5900, it uses 5800. Moreover, what display
number is the server using? The port used for the connection is
determined by the display number such that:
     port = 5900 + <display_number>
     java_port = 5800 + <display_number>
So, for example, if the display number is 1, the ports that you need
to forward are 5901 and/or 5801.

I don't know if this is your situation, but these are just some
problems that I thought you might be facing.

Hope it helps,
Malcolm
< mlalkaka [at] gmail.com >
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