[Tfug] HALP! DynDNS nightmare, again...

[Jim March]

I'm using uVNC 1.0.8.  And the fact that I can connect across the
local net direct to the IP addy of the "server" machine suggests
Windows firewall isn't the issue.

Jim

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2009 at 15:52, Jim March  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Scofield <KScofield at ecgrp.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Silly question, if you are using RDP, you forwarded port 3389, not port
>> > 5900 right? Your email says you forwarded 5900 and were trying to use
>> > RDP.
>>
>> I'm using UltraVNC off of Sourceforge...for Windows (sigh).  Ain't
>> gonna convert this lady to the side of light and justice any time
>> soon.  Anyways...it says right at the client side that it's going in
>> off of 5900.  Should I add 3389 too, at the router?
>
> No, but you probably need to configure the Windows firewall manually to allow
> inbound connections on port 5900, or to allow connections to winvnc.exe.  If
> you grab UltraVNC 1.0.8.0 from http://www.uvnc.com/ it will do that for you,
> but the version that is "shipping" from SourceForge right now appears to be
> much older, 1.0.5, and it doesn't reconfigure the Windows firewall for you.
>
> HTH
>
> Angus
>
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