behind a router

[William Hooper]

Jeff Glaspie wrote:
[snip]
> My concern is that I don't want to
> use the defaults and would like to start my ports at something like 51000.
> Does
> that mean that VNC will automatically know that 51000 will be "0" and so
> on??  I just would like to make sure.

No, you would have to use the address::port syntax.

> -->  Another think is that inorder to port forward, VNC has to have 5900
> TCP
> 5500 TCP and 5800 TCP ports open to connect to the machine.

VNC only needs one port (5900 by default).  If you want to serve the java
viewer, you need two ports (5900 and 5800 by default).  Port 5500 is for
the listening viewer, not the server.

-- 
William Hooper