I have a local machine that i have installed VNC server on. It has a static ip address (internet works). I have set up port forwarding for the e-mail server and all that stuff on the SME firewall and it works fine. Just cant seem to get VNC set up.
This is what i did to set up VNC:
1. Installed VNC on the local machine (edit: Windows 2000 computer)
2. Went to port forwarding on the SME manager and created port 5900 to go to port 5900 with the destination ip of the local mahcine that has VNC.
3 Installed VNC viewer on a local machine and typed in the SME firewall ip address. -this didnt work... also tried putting :5900 after the ip address and it still didnt work. (edit: i need to access it from outside the network)
what am i doing wrog or not doing? please help me out. Thanks!
I have had it working once on a SME 7.0rc1 and an XP client running VNC.
As I can remember correctly I installed the vncserver on the client and setup port forwarding on the smeserver for port 5900 to the internal IP number of the Windows XP box.
The 5900 port only works with a VNC client at the other end (where you are sitting and try to connect). If you would like to use the java client that comes with VNC you will have to use port 5800 as thie java client runs there by default setup.
Could it perhaps be that ther is some sort of firewall on the W2k box? Can you access the W2k box over the internal network from some other client in your network?