Free VNC Problems

[Kim Whaley]

Nope.  The machine is XP Pro sp 2.  I'm not going anywhere near Vista until
I absolutely have to.  I did yank IE 7 off the machine because I thought it
might be a problem but that didn't help either.

I am willing try anything at this point.  Part of the reason I do VNC is so
that I can connect to my work VNC computers as they are on a separate
network and my work's network blocks internal addresses from going to them.

I'll let you know if the tunneling software works.

Kim Whaley


On 5/15/08, Ryo Koyama <rkoyama "at" gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kim
>
> Any chance that you're trying to connect to a Vista machine?  That would
> exhibit the problem that you're having.
>
> If not, my company make a remote tunneling software package (free download)
> that works with VNC and eliminates the need for router config.  If you want
> to give that a go, you can go to http://www.yoics.com to download and you
> can find information on VNC configuration here:
> http://help.yoics.com/xpvnc.php
>
> Ryo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> Behalf Of Kim Whaley
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:42 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: Kim Whaley Gmail
> Subject: Free VNC Problems
>
> I've been looking for a reason for my problem in the archives and joined
> the
> list.  I have tried the connection refused/connection timed out solutions
> but that doesn't seem to work.  The only way I can get it to work, briefly,
> is to reboot my router and then it doesn't stay for me to try from
> work.  It
> is an intermittent problem so I think I have a timeout somewhere in my
> network.  I run Free VNC at home but connect via the Enterprise viewer
> because that is what I have for 4 machines at work.  It worked until I had
> to change routers.  The weird part is that it will work for a time, then
> quit working until I reboot the router.
>
> I got a new router (old one died a horrible death), a NETGEAR RangeMax
> Wireless router model WPN824v2, and this problem has been happening ever
> since.  It's connected to AT&T DSL (6.0 MB highest they have in my area)
> via
> Westall 6600 Modem.  Internet works but VNC to my machine is sporatic at
> best.  Before I call the manufacturer of the router, (I already verified
> setup for the modem with AT&T), I wanted to make sure I have everything
> setup correctly.  I have holes in the router for ports 5900 and 5800 to
> point to my machine that is on an internal address that I assigned by the
> router so that it is static.  Internal VNC works from another machine but
> not external.  I have run the test to make sure VNC is working from the
> server and it finds it.  I have unistalled and reinstalled VNC Free
> edition.  Turning on and off the Windows Firewall on my machine (Win XP SP2
> Pro, the ports are allowed when it is on) doesn't make a difference.  I've
> changed the setting in the router for an "open" firewall and that doesn't
> make a difference either.  It seems like there is a timeout somewhere and I
> can find it in my router.  If you have any clue where I can go to, that
> would be great.  Right now, the machine I'm trying to connect is saying
> connection refused.
>
> Kim Whaley
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