Ultr@vnc help

billybigfoot · Post by **billybigfoot** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:57 pm

I have two PC's connected behind a Belkin 4 port cable gateway router, both sharing the internet, and sharing files and a printer with each other. All works very well and I've no problems with the setup.

I've recently installed Ultr@vnc, server on one PC, client on the other, and it works excetionally well over the private-lan side of the netwrok and again I've no complaints.

My first question:

How would I test the ability to connect to the vnc server seeing I don't have access to an outside internet connection (ie from work etc). And what settings would I need to use, ie ip address, port number etc?

Second question:

what sort of security would I be prudent to use?

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:20 pm

Ports 5800/5900
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/website/firewall.htm

You'll want your computer to have a static LAN IP address, so you can optimally forward the ports to it.
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=177

You will connect to your VNC host, from the internet, using the WAN IP address that your router obtains. Hopefully you have a static IP account, that doesn't keep changing on you.

JackMDS · Post by **JackMDS** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:26 pm

Set every thing and go to one of the Interent Caffes to test it.

Instructions for setting: Ultr@VNC - Installation, and Settings.

billybigfoot · Post by **billybigfoot** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:56 am

Thankyou, thankyou,

All up - and - running, works extreemly well!!

The main reason I wanted to get vnc working is at times friends and family ask me to "take a look" at thier PC's and at times I've found that I've had to come home again to retrieve a file or what ever from my PC, this should save me a lot of running arround.

Once again I thankyou.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:18 am

billybigfoot wrote:Thankyou, thankyou,

All up - and - running, works extreemly well!!

The main reason I wanted to get vnc working is at times friends and family ask me to "take a look" at thier PC's and at times I've found that I've had to come home again to retrieve a file or what ever from my PC, this should save me a lot of running arround.

Once again I thankyou.

Yup, it's handy for that. I just got done remoting into someones computer with it to fix a networked printer issue, using UltraVNC. Sure beats driving over there, eh?

billybigfoot · Post by **billybigfoot** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:38 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Yup, it's handy for that. I just got done remoting into someones computer with it to fix a networked printer issue, using UltraVNC. Sure beats driving over there, eh?

Just think how envirnmentaly friendly it is, saving all that petrol and exhaust fumes, stress from driving on over crowded roads, having to stop off on the way for food and cigarettes............... Thin I might have gone a bit too far but you get the idea.

Megadeus · Post by **Megadeus** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:23 pm

Sorry for dragging up a year old post BUT, I've been having some UltraVNC issues recently.

I've been using VNC for quite some time now, even with my D-Link 514 router. I've had some little quirks here and there but recently, like about a month long now, I've not been able to access my home PC from either of my jobs AND from my laptop while sitting right next to the home PC. I "can" access it with the laptop when I just use the IP address, the local IP, boom, I'm there and having fun but using the internet it's been all "Connecting to server" then it times out.
I do use the DYNDNS software and services and just today I upgraded the DynDns updater software with no change - it still times out.

I have not added any hardware or software during this time so I'm at a loss as to what is going on here.

Any Help? Thanks!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:33 pm

Couple of things I'd check....
Verify the actual WAN IP of your router matches what DynDNS thinks you are. Perhaps one morning check the WAN IP, by looking at the status section of your routers web admin, or pointing your browser an IP checking site like http://www.whatismyip.com, then try to connect later to that IP once you've left home.
Perhaps reset your router to factory defaults, and setup the port forwarding again.
Verify the port forwarding points to the correct LAN IP address of your workstation, hopefully you setup a static LAN IP address, and your VNC host isn't running DHCP...because if it's DHCP, it could change LAN IPs once in a while, and the port forwarding would naturally become stale and fail.