remote administraton....how har can it be?

[Senture]

Ok i have never had this may problems with remote administration before. I have been trying with both VNC and RAdmin. At first i thought it was because the NAT on the router was screwed, but the mir server and azureus work fine. What ever settings i give these programs and what ever rules i define in the router it will not connect, any ideas?

On a side note i can use these programs internaly but externaly is hopeless

 

[Kaori]

Did you try changing ports? you change firewall as well?

 

[Senture]

yep kaori i have tryed over 20 different ports with the programs. i am totaly stumped by this

 

[Kaori]

I have a feeling the port is still blocked by something.
Do you have windows firewall? try adding port 5900 in the exception list. Or turn it off completely.

 

[Dataforce]

Port forwards setup correctly on your router? Port allowed by any firewall you have on your computer?

 

[Senture]

Yep. i have been through and done practicaly everything possible. removed the firewall from the pc, altered the programs ports, defined a static ip on the internal network, changed the protocall from TCP to UDP (i knew that wouldnt work but its worth a try) the only method i have not tryed is DMZ purely because it is not in the router.

Whilst i was playing with it i was observing how the connection behaves, its not blocked by the router but more along the lines of it begins to get to its destination then drops out.

 

[Dataforce]

Are you actually trying todo it remotely, or are you trying locally, using your external IP?

 

[Kaori]

maybe pm me your msn.. I'll try to connect you etc... test a couple of things.

 

[Senture]

well this gets strange lol. vnc failed at leased 10 times last night, but it seems to work at the moment. i tested the serring first internaly over my internal ip address, then i set my laptop up to connect to a seperate network with a different internet and could not get a connection

 

[BabyBear]

Why are you trying to use VNC anyway? It's not exactly the most stable or performace giving bit of software.

If you are trying to connect to a windows xp or server 2003 machine the simply enable rdp, or in 2003 its enabled by default

then on your local machine providing your on a Windows XP goto Start > Run > mstsc

Port forwarding for RDP is 3389

 

[Senture]

its ok i solved my problem any way. vnc was a last resort.