vnc access

[Paul Kaplan]

I don't believe the problem is with my router.  I am forwarding ports 5800 and 
5900 to my target machine at home.  The problem is that when I'm behind a 
corporate firewall at work, I can't contact home, and I have no admin access 
to the corp firewall.  I can't ping public IP addresses from work, so I can't 
connect to my home box directly on port 5900 w/ a vnc client.  I thought I 
would be able to use the java version and connect from a browser through port 
5800.  That's when the browser times out.

If my logic seems wrong could you tell me how I might test the connection to 
determine where the block is?

Paul
On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:25:57 pm Chris Lemire wrote:
> You need to port forward tcp port 5900 if you are using on your router at
> home to your home computers lan ip address e.g. 192.168.1.100. That ip is
> found from "sudo ifconfig" for the device eth0. To do port forwarding,
> browse to your routers setup page from home. It is probably
> http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1 depending on which router you
> have, and then read the documentation for your router to do port
> forwarding. The username and password will probably be admin/admin or
> admin/blank if you have never changed it. VNC is not used for file sharing.
> You might want to setup a vpn with samba for that, or you can use scp
> (secure copy) that comes with the openssh-server package for file
> transfers. That will also require port forwarding with tcp port 22.
>
> Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote: I'm still having problems using a
> vnc client from behind a corporate to access my home boxes.  My vnc server
> is running OK and I can access it using java when I'm at home connecting to
> either my LANs private IP or externally thru the public IP and port 5800. 
> When I try to do this from work, I get a time out.
>
> Any ideas how to get through?  I don't need/want anything that is too
> complex since my objective is just to do occasional trouble shooting or
> grab a file.
>
> Paul