Port 5800 - VNC client through a browser

[James Weatherall]

Leon,

You'll need port 5900 open whichever kind of viewer you are using - that's
the VNC port.  5800 is just the HTTP port used to serve the Java viewer.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of L.M.
> Sent: 14 May 2007 10:39
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Port 5800 - VNC client through a browser
> 
> Hi,
> I am using "VNC Free Edition 4.1".
> 
> o At PLACE_1, I have:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - a LAN "192.168.0.0/24" ;
> - a router with a public IP "W.X.Y.Z" ;
> - a host A="192.168.0.6" running a VNC server.
> 
> o At PLACE_2, I have:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - a LAN "192.168.1.0/24" ;
> - a host B="192.168.1.2" on which I want to run a VCN viewer
>   (via a HTTP server) to connect to the VNC server running on A.
> 
> o First situation:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> My router is configured to transmit everything it receives
> on its port 5900 to host A on the port 5900 (port forwar-
> ding).
> 
> If I run a VNC viewer (not via a browser) on host B, I
> manage to connect the VNC server on host A. It succeeds.
> 
> o Second situation:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Now, if I configure my router so that everything it receives
>   on its port 5800 is transmitted to host A on port 5800
> - and type in a browser: http://W.X.Y.Z:5800/
> 
> I have the following message:
> "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect"
> 
> o Notice:
> ~~~~~~~~~
> If I run http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/nettest.cgi on the server
> it says:
>   "The ip address requesting this web page is W.X.Y.Z (REMOTE_ADDR)
>    Connecting to port 5900 succeeded
>    Waiting from server to send version string"
> Why port 5900 and not port 5800?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Leon
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