vnc setup like gotomypc.com?

[Bruce Pennypacker]

On 8/7/07, Bruce Pennypacker <bruce.pennypacker "at" gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Never mind.  I figured it out.  It's not clear that the server needs to
already be running before you run the above command.  Thanks for all the
suggestions & help!

-Bruce