Remote Desktop & Netgear router

[Chuck]

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I saw an old thread on this newsgroup with the above subject and was
wondering if the problem was ever resolved. I think I am having the same
problem

I have a Netgear wgr614v5 router connected to my home PC. I am trying to
use either VNC or Remote Desktop to access it from my laptop at work. If
I bring the laptop home I can connect to the home PC just fine using a
wireless connection on the LAN. When I try to connect over the Internet
from a remote location however I cannot connect at all.

I've set up the home PC with to register the router's WAN IP with
dyndns.org (the router is supposed to do this without running a service
on the PC but it didn't work). I can connect to the router and do remote
management of it at mydomain.dyndns.org:8080 with no problems. But
trying to get to the PC behind the router never works. I've forwarded
ports 5800, and 5900 (the VNC server ports) to the LAN IP of my home PC
- - 192.168.1.2. Why can't I get through to them?

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[Chuck]

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I saw an old thread on this newsgroup with the above subject and was
wondering if the problem was ever resolved. I think I am having the same
problem

I have a Netgear wgr614v5 router connected to my home PC. I am trying to
use either VNC or Remote Desktop to access it from my laptop at work. If
I bring the laptop home I can connect to the home PC just fine using a
wireless connection on the LAN. When I try to connect over the Internet
from a remote location however I cannot connect at all.

I've set up the home PC with to register the router's WAN IP with
dyndns.org (the router is supposed to do this without running a service
on the PC but it didn't work). I can connect to the router and do remote
management of it at mydomain.dyndns.org:8080 with no problems. But
trying to get to the PC behind the router never works. I've forwarded
ports 5800, and 5900 (the VNC server ports) to the LAN IP of my home PC
- 192.168.1.2. Why can't I get through to them?

Forgot to mention that there is a Norton AV firewall active on the home
PC but I've opened up ports 5800 and 5900 on that was well. I've double
checked and the Windows firewall is not running.

BTW, should I just shut down the Norton firewall since the wgr614 has
one built in? Is there any benefit to keeping it running?

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