A slightly general VNC question

[William Hooper]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Shikhanshu Agarwal <shikhanshu "at" gmail.com>wrote:

> what happened:
> within the lan, everything's rosy, i can access my mac from roomy's PC
> using
> a viewer. also, usually i go to http://ip-address:port in the browser and
> if
> it i see the RFB 003.008 message, i assume communication is fine.
> from office, it looks like port forwarding is working fine.
> http://my-external-ip:forwarded_port works fine and gives me RFB 003.008
> in
> the browser. thus i am assuming the communication is fine and my requests
> from outside the lan are being properly forwarded to the vnc server port
> (5900) on my mac.
>

Is your web browser configure to use a proxy server?

Using the web browser to test the connection probably isn't the best
choice.  I would suggest something like "telnet my-external-ip 5901".

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William Hooper