Topic: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final

[kozel]

I have a 6.0 final gateway and server forwaring 6 ports to 3 computers running real VNC.  I can connect to 2 of the 3 from the outside and inside I can connect to all 3.  All 3 are set up the same way.  On the VNC host they all are set to 'auto', all have static addresses, and I'm forwarding 5801 & 5901 to 5800 and 5900 on 192.168.1.213 and 5802 & 5902 to 5800 & 5900 on 192.168.1.208 and 5803 & 5903 to 5800 & 5900 on 192.168.1.210. All forwarding is TCP none is UDP.  The one not working is a Win2000 SBS server the 2 working are Win2000 workstations. Connecting inside (which works), I connect using the internal IP address. From the outside I'm using the dyndns address of the gateway and a suffix of :1 :2 or :3. The :3 is the one not working. Any ideas?

[Boris]

Why not use PPTP VPN to login to your network first and then connect "internally" to all of your computers?

[kozel]

thanks for the reply, I'll give it a try. I assume this is the more 'secure' method, yes?

[Boris]

It is secure. And simple too.

[Kobus]

Where can I find docs to set this up.

[Anonymous]

In the manual for the server. Link to documentation is on the left panel.

[sqlerror]

I have a 6.0 final gateway and server forwaring 6 ports to 3 computers running real VNC.  I can connect to 2 of the 3 from the outside and inside I can connect to all 3....

Not really a secure way to enable VNC. I suggest that you dial in to your server via a secure VPN tunnel and use the local ip-addresses to access VNC. Tight-VNC using fast compression is very useable whithout opening the VNC-ports to the outside world!

Sqlerror

[sqlerror]

I have a 6.0 final gateway and server forwaring 6 ports to 3 computers running real VNC.  I can connect to 2 of the 3 from the outside and inside I can connect to all 3....

Not really a secure way to enable VNC. I suggest that you dial in to your server via a secure VPN tunnel and use the local ip-addresses to access VNC. Tight-VNC using fast compression is very useable whithout opening the VNC-ports to the outside world!

Sqlerror