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Title: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: kozel on January 23, 2004, 06:39:27 PM

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?

Title: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: Boris on January 23, 2004, 08:04:13 PM

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

Title: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: kozel on January 23, 2004, 08:24:56 PM

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

Title: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: Boris on January 23, 2004, 08:31:50 PM

It is secure. And simple too.

Title: PPTP VPN
Post by: Kobus on January 24, 2004, 12:41:37 AM

Where can I find docs to set this up.

Title: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: Anonymous on January 24, 2004, 01:02:31 AM

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

Title: Re: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: sqlerror on January 27, 2004, 03:38:49 PM

Quote from: "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....

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

Title: Re: VNC and port forwarding in 6.0final
Post by: sqlerror on January 27, 2004, 03:39:17 PM

Quote from: "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....

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