New to WINVnc and need help.

Hi all!

Here goes!

I have just discovered WIN Vnc and plan on using it to manage my customer accounts for my computer service business at home.

I have not had a problem connecting when it is direct through a cable or dsl modem but when I throw a router inbetween I can't connect. I have turned off the windows firewall since the router comes with it's own.

I have also turned on remote management on the router and allowed my IP address. Still can't get to the computers beyond the router.

What am I missing? Still new to more advanced networking and any help would be appreciated.

Slightly confused,

Paul

 

Of course you can't get to the computers behind the router, they'd all have their own internal ip addresses. Which can only be accesses internally.

What you could do is forward the ports you're using to one of the internal addresses, and then you'd be able to connect to that ONE computer. Once you're connected to that you could then open another session from that computer and connect to a diffrent one.

You won't be able to just pick out the computers that are behind the router though, because there is only one external IP address, so you have no way of telling it which computer to go to.

 

May be this can Help: Ultr@VNC - Installation, and Settings.

 

You have to tell each machine's VNC to listen on a specific port-- 5800 is the default. You then have to map any requests from the internet for that port to the LAN IP of the machine you want to connnect to. For example, if you have two machines behind a router that you want to be able to use VNC to remotely connect to, they each have to be listening on a different port number. So make one listen on 5800, and the other on 5801. If the first machine's LAN IP is 192.168.0.2, and the second's is 192.168.0.3, you have to map or "forward" those ports to each of those machines in your router, i.e. map port 5800 to 192.168.0.2, and map port 5801 to 192.168.0.3. Next, you need to know the current IP address your ISP is assigning your connection-- let's say it's 205.152.0.99 for purposes of illustration. Then, from the internet, you would type in to your browser's URL line http://205.152.0.99:5800 to connect to the first PC, or http://205.152.0.99:5801 to connect to the second.

 

Thanks guys! All the explanations helped, especially Doug!

One "Get out of jail free" card to all of ya!

Thanks,

Officer Paul Rowen
Meriden Police Dept.
Meriden, CT

 

Being a VNC user for a coupla years now, i have found out you can also install a macintosh client and get access via a PC. So it's not only PC-to-PC, but much more.

Remote Desktop Connection is also OK, but i think the performance of VNC is much better. There are several VNC versions, all having different security implementations:

Basic VNC
Tight VNC
Ultra Tight VNC

i use Basic at Home, but tight over the internet.

 

all complicated stuff, how do you map the ip addresses on your router? is there a special feature built into the router, or do you configure the software?

also, im using tight vnc, does anyone have any clue if file transfer is possible?