Need help on use of TightVNC-router access and readable screen?

[Joe Donaldson]

Need help on use of TightVNC-router access and readable screen?
Perhaps someone can help me.

1. My friend can TightVNC into me but the screen he sees from my PC is
not very readable. How can this be corrected? I have a Win 2k Pro
system with an ATI card FWIW.


2. I cannot VNC into him as he has a LinkSys router. He is running Win
XP Pro. We tried the router address and then we tried the real IP
address using www.whatismyip.com He did shut down his software
firewall and I shut down mine.

All ideas and help much appreciated.



Thanks,
Joe

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Any NAT/router device blocks incoming traffic not in response to an existing
conversation (i.e. unsolicited) by default.

You need to forward traffic on the port used by VNC to the target host
machine, in the router.

I believe you want to forward port 5800, TCP to the workstation's IP
address, and then call using the public IP address of the router.

I'm not sure what to say about the "unreadable"--I would experiment. I tend
to use this VNC variant these days:

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

 

[Sooner Al]

Bill,

That should read TCP Port 5900.

http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#firewall

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[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks very much, Al!

Bill,

That should read TCP Port 5900.

http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#firewall

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[Joe Donaldson]

Thanks. Great answers.
Joe

Thanks very much, Al!