vnc setup like gotomypc.com?

[Bruce Pennypacker]

On 8/5/07, Sean Kamath <kamath "at" geekoids.com> wrote:
>
>
> Open a port on *your* router, then forward that port to your machine
> you use VNC to control their machines.  Have them start vnc and
> connect to a "listening client" and point to your machine (if
> necessary, a dyndns hostname).
>
> Then you never need to configure their routers/nat/firewall, and it
> always "just works".
>
> For a while, I dropped shortcuts or whatever they're called on PCs
> (pifs?), that did winvnc4.exe -connect "my ipaddr", labeled them "get
> help" and would tell my mother "click on get help". :-)


This sounds like exactly what I would prefer.  I've never used the listening
client before so I figured I'd give it a shot.  I just tried running the
listening client on my workstation and ran "winvnc4.exe -connect <ipaddr>"
on the machine I wanted to control but I keep getting an error "Unable to
locate existing VNC Server".  From what I've read the viewer listens on port
5500 so I have that opened in my firewall, and when I have the viewer
running in listen mode I can telnet to that port so I know the firewall is
set up properly.  Do I also need 5900 opened up as well or is there
something else I'm missing?

-Bruce