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This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server |
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machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you |
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connect to the Internet via a router). |
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This is covered in the FAQs. |
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If you are going to allow connections on your WinXP firewall, it is safer that |
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you limit these to the IP address(es) of the machine on which the VNC viewer |
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is running. |
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On Sunday 05 November 2006 19:59, Heather Howey wrote: |
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> Hello listmates, |
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> |
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> Have downloaded the free viewer to my friend's machine, installed the |
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> server program on my home computer, but cannot, from my friend's machine, |
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> connect. |
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> |
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> Following the instructions on how to find the IP address of the server |
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> machine, I got two. According to my ISP, one of them is static and one is |
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> dynamic. But they won't tell me which is which. So, how can I know which |
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> one to use in the VNC Viewer's dialog box to connect? |
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> |
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> Well, maybe that's not so important, because I've tried using both IP |
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> numbers and neither one works. |
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> |
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> I just get error message "unable to connect to host. Connection refused |
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> (10061)" |
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> |
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> Anyone out there who can see what I'm doing wrong? |
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> Grateful for tips, |
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> |
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> Heather |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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