vnc access

[Chris Lemire]

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

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