RealVNC Internet Connection problem

:cry
Here is the setup:

1 Laptop with XP Home with AVG Firewall
1 Desktop with XP Pro with Windows Firewall
1 2Wire HomePortal Modem/Router

I downloaded and installed RealVNC 4.1.2 on both machines and set the connection port to 5901 on the laptop and 5902 on the desktop.

On both machines, I opened their respective port in their firewalls and allowed winvnc.exe to communicate with the outside world.

On the router, I forwarded incoming traffic on port 5901 to the laptop and port 5902 to the desktop.

Using the VNC viewer, the machines see each other when using the local IPs
such as 192.168.0.22:5901 from the desktop to view the laptop and 192.168.0.23:5902 from the laptop to view the desktop.

Here where it gets crazy:

Assume the public IP is 70.70.70.70 (as I would read it from a site such as WhatIsMyIP.com)

I can view the laptop from the desktop using 70.70.70.70:5901
But not the other way around. Aaargh...

Any idea of what I am doing wrong???

Jean-Louis

 

The Router's port opening is not come into play when you do a LAN conncetion.

What it means is that the port opening is not configured correctly toward the Desktop.

 

After rechecking for the nth time, I found that was pointing the port to the wrong computer. Ooops!

Thanks for the help.

Jean-Louis

 

After rechecking for the nth time, I found that was pointing the port to the wrong computer. Ooops!

Thanks for the help.

Jean-Louis