Wireless laptop to desktop VNC service

[Robin Hill]

On Sun Nov 19, 2006 at 04:31:36PM -0800, gregg jewell wrote:

> I have looked and have not seen any help on this, inless I just have no
idea
> what I am looking for, so here goes:
>
> Desktop is connected to a wireless
> Lynksys router, which is also used for my laptop to access the internet.  I
> have both a VNC viewer and a VNC server installed on each machine.  At this
> point in time, I have stumbled upon the right? settings for being able to
view
> laptop on my desktop machine, but am unable to access desktop machine from
> laptop.  I was able to forward port on router to accept incoming requests
to
> be sent to laptop.  But, when I try to access desktop from the laptop, I am
> only seeing (or viewing) my own laptop, instead of the desktop...LOL  So
far
> no problems going from the desktop and viewing the laptop.  Any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated, and of course if more info is needed, I will
be
> glad to give them out for assistance.
>
I'm a little confused here - why are you doing port forwarding on the
router?  I'd've thought that both machines would be on the internal
interface of the router so should be able to connect directly (without
going via the external interface of the router).  On a normal setup you
should just be able to get the IP address of the machine and use this as
the destination address for the VNC connection from the other machine.
If this isn't the case then you'll definitely need to provide a bit more
info on the internal IP addresses and netmasks used.

Cheers,
        Robin
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