Remote Access

[sayaprayer]

I'm trying to setup remote access to one of my desktop PC's. I'd like to be able to access it from work as well from my other home PC. I was trying to follow this guide since it seemed the easiest. http://www.yourwar.net/?page_id=6

I just can't seem to connect. I'm behind a router. I assume this is my problem. How do I get around this?

 

[office politics]

vnc uses port 5900 by default for your first connection. forward this port to your private ip. the config should be done in the router. there's a port forward guide stickyed in this forum

 

[sayaprayer]

I setup up port forwarding now and I'm still getting the same error. Failed to connect. Any ideas? Is it the program I'm using?

 

[office politics]

you wont be able to connect from your home network by using your public ip address. You will have to test from a remote location.

 

[wxt38]

could you brefly describe what you did.

 

[sayaprayer]

Well I gave my PC a static IP. Then I set up router for port forwarding. I just used the guide in the sticky. I installed VNC server on my desktop PC and then I put the viewer on my laptop. Entered in my info and tried to connect and got fail to connect message.

 

[IBMan]

my isp doesn't allow me to use port 5900, much less 21 for ftp or 80 for http, try using something like 54321, or something else with 5 digits, usually always works for me. you also may have to wait a while before it works, and yes you can use the local loop(using your public ip address from inside your lan) always worked for me. It's practically like using a loopback cable.

 

[sayaprayer]

I tried different ports and still nothing. Perhaps I need to start from the begining to set this up right.

 

[IBMan]

is your windows firewall turned off? and can you connect to it using the LAN Private IP Address?

 

[sayaprayer]

Nope I couldn't connect using the Private IP either. So I tried remote desktop and that seems to work. I thought Media Center edition was like Home so I didn't think it had remote desktop that's why I tried VNC. Is there a way to use remote desktop over the web? Or does it only work on LAN?