Wireless laptop to desktop VNC service

[Mick]

On Monday 20 November 2006 00:31, 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

Change the IP address(es) so that they are staggered between the two machines.
This way you will be able to point your VNC viewer to the appropriate address
for the desktop without it coinciding with the laptop's IP address.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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