Fw: Wireless laptop to desktop VNC service

[Robin Hill]

On Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 10:48:35AM -0800, gregg jewell wrote:

> I have gone in and taken the port forwarding settings off.  When I try to
open
> the VNC viewer on my laptop, so that I can see the pc, I can only get
access
> to the laptop, which does me no good.  Ive triple checked my addresses and
am
> certain I am entering them correctly, but my pc address will not take.  On
the
> other hand, when i sign on the viewer from the pc, I can see either the
laptop
> or the pc, depending on the IP address I enter into the viewer.  I hope that
I
> am just missing something very simple.  As far as I can tell, the settings
on
> both machines are identical with the exception of the IP addresses I put in
> when starting the viewers.
>
So let me get this straight - when you put the desktop's IP address into
the viewer on the laptop then you get connected to the laptop?  Or do
you not get a connection at all?

If it's the latter then I'd guess you won't be able to ping the desktop
from the laptop either.  That would suggest the router is doing some
sort of firewalling of the LAN connection from the wireless.  You'll
have to disable this (or add a specific exclusion for VNC) before you'll
be able to connect.

HTH,
        Robin
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