Hi all,

Trying to set-up vnc on a pc thought the router, have forwarded port 5800 to
the ip address of the pc with vnc running. When I try to connect remotely
using a webpage I get the grey screen asking for the password, once I input
the pass word I get this message after about a minute

java.net.NoRouteToHostException Timed out

anyone know what's going on, I have installed the latest firmware but no
joy.

Thanks

Glenn

Hi Glen

I use vnc through my DG814 without any problems.
My DG814 is running firmware 4.7.
I am using RealVNC, the latest version.

Have you tried connecting using the windows client (vncviewer.exe)?
This will tell you if its a general problem or just the web interface.

Cheers

Darren

"Glenn" <NOSPAMglenn.clark@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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I have tried the vnc view which does not work either, if I try on the
internal network its not a problem only from the otherside of the router.

"Darren Lambert" <nospam@virgin.net> wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:56:24 +0100, "Glenn"
<NOSPAMglenn.clark@btinternet.com> wrote:

I think you _might_ need to open port 5900 as well. From the VNC
website:

"The simplest way to allow VNC connections in through your firewall is
to configure your firewalling software to allow connections to the VNC
ports. If N is the display number of a particular VNC server then it
will accept connections on port 5900+N. Configuring your firewall to
allow connections to this port will allow VNC to work. If you wish to
use the in-built web server and Java VNC Viewer then you will also
need to allow connections to port 5800+N."

It is not entirely clear from that whether you need to open 5800 and
5900 for the java viewer to work. But I'm guessing you need both, one
to act as the webserver to serve the java applet and the normal VNC
port that the applet connects to.
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On 15 Oct 2003 09:55, Andrew Norman <andy@norman.cx> wrote:

Yes, you would need both. As you suggest, the connection from the
browser starts on 5800+N to prompt for a password, and subsequently
data is passed on 5900+N only. I haven't set up my router to check
all that, but because of the firewall on this PC and using VNC on one
other, was able to confirm the connections and sequence.

Of course it is quite easy to have multiple local PCs available using
different port numbers, so no individual IPs needed for each one, if
you are happy with just one static IP to serve your LAN. Peter M.

On 15 Oct 2003, "Darren Lambert" <nospam@virgin.net> wrote:

It's also simpler, just using port 5900, but the browser option might
be the only one available (eg from an iMac). I will have to add some
more port forwards now :-) Peter M.