"Failed to connect to server"

[Scott C. Best]

Ian:

 	Heya. Are you trying to connect to the PC from behind the
same firewall/router you're trying to configure? If so, that likely
won't work. If you're on the same LAN as that PC, you'll need to
use the LAN IP-address; only if you're off-LAN will the "external"
side IP address work for you.

hope that helps,
Scott

> I have a PC behind a firewall router then I'm trying (unsuccessfully!) to
> connect to.  I have set up the port forwarding and both
> http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/nettest.cgi and http://www.gotomyvnc.com/ say
> that the (external) ip and port 5900 are accepting connections and get a reply
> from the VNC server.  However telnet can't connect on that port and the VNC
> viewer comes straight back with "Failed to connect to server".   What am I
> doing wrong??
>
> Ian